gSee ch. 5:7-19
Exodus 1:10-16
10 aCome, blet us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.” 11Therefore they set taskmasters over them cto afflict them with heavy dburdens. They built for Pharaoh estore cities, Pithom and fRaamses. 12But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel. 13So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel gwork as slaves 14and hmade their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.15Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, 16“When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”
Exodus 1:22
22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, i“Every son that is born to the Hebrews ▼▼Samaritan, Septuagint, Targum; Hebrew lacks to the Hebrews
you shall cast into kthe Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.” Psalms 10:8
8He sits in ambush in the villages;in lhiding places he murders the innocent.
His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;
Psalms 64:2-7
2Hide me from mthe secret plots of the wicked,from the throng of evildoers,
3who nwhet their tongues like swords,
who oaim bitter words like arrows,
4shooting from pambush at the blameless,
shooting at him suddenly and qwithout fear.
5They rhold fast to their evil purpose;
they talk of slaying snares secretly,
thinking, t“Who can see them?”
6They search out injustice,
saying, “We have accomplished a diligent search.”
For uthe inward mind and heart of a man are deep.
7 vBut God shoots his arrow at them;
they are wounded suddenly.
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