264 - Slaves In Egypt: Exodus 1-2
The Symbolic World
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What the Pharaoh Is Doing Is Trying to Reduce Israel to Only Potential, Right?
The Egyptians put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built pithom and ramzis as store cities for Pharaoh. The king of the Egyptians said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Sifra and Pua,. When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him. But if it is a girl, let her live. So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.
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