And he said, When you serve as a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then you shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

The time Hebrew, "and you shall see them upon the two stones. "Abenaim. Jeremias (xviii. 3,) uses the same expression, speaking of a potter hard at work. (Calmet) A woman, from whom nothing could be feared, to be reserved for service and for pleasure. (Menochius) We must not obey princes in their unjust commands. (Acts iv, and Matthew x. 28.) (Worthington)

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