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Acts 7:19

World English Bible

The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.

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Acts 7:19 in other translations

The same dealt craftily with our race, and ill-treated our fathers, that they should cast out their babes to the end they might not live.

Acts 7:19 · American Standard Version

Acts 7:19 in context

  1. 17“But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
  2. 18until there arose a different king, who didn’t know Joseph.
  3. 19The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.
  4. 20At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.
  5. 21When he was thrown out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up and reared him as her own son.