Puah

Family: Hebrew · Role: midwife · First appears: Exodus 1

Life events

• Pharaoh commanded the Hebrew midwives to kill every newborn son.(Exodus 1 · 📍 Egypt)
  • With: Pharaoh Shiphrah
  • “if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.”
• The midwives disobeyed Pharaoh and preserved the Hebrew male children.(Exodus 1 · 📍 Egypt)
  • With: Shiphrah
  • “But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.”
• God rewarded the midwives by establishing households for them.(Exodus 1 · 📍 Egypt)
  • With: God Shiphrah
  • “Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.”

Exodus 1

• commander: Pharaoh “And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Five Books of Moses. Made with Rho MD.