Exodus 1:16
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, a“Every son that is born to the Hebrews ▼▼Samaritan, Septuagint, Targum; Hebrew lacks to the Hebrews
you shall cast into cthe Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.” Esther 3:12-14
12 dThen the king’s scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king’s esatraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the officials of all the peoples, fto every province in its own script and every people in its own language. It was written gin the name of King Ahasuerus hand sealed with the king’s signet ring. 13Letters were sent iby couriers to all the king’s provinces with instruction jto destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, kin one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, land to plunder their goods. 14 mA copy of the document was to be issued as a decree in every province by proclamation to all the peoples to be ready for that day.Psalms 94:20
20Can nwicked rulers be allied with you,those who frame injustice by ostatute?
Ecclesiastes 3:16
From Dust to Dust
16Moreover, pI saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even qthere was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.Isaiah 10:1
1Woe to those who rdecree iniquitous decrees,and the writers who skeep writing oppression,
Daniel 3:4-7
4And the herald tproclaimed aloud, “You are commanded, O upeoples, nations, and languages, 5that when you hear the vsound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, you ware to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. 6And whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately xbe cast into a burning fiery furnace.” 7Therefore, as soon as all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, all ythe peoples, nations, and languages fell down and worshiped the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.Daniel 6:12
12Then they zcame near and said before the king, concerning the injunction, “O king! Did you not sign aaan injunction, that anyone who makes petition to any god or man within thirty days except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?” The king answered and said, “The thing stands fast, according to the law of abthe Medes and Persians, acwhich cannot be revoked.”
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