Exodus 1:17
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But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.
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But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.
You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God.
But the former governors who preceded me had burdened the people and had taken food and wine from them, in addition to forty shekels of silver. Their associates were also domineering over the people. But I did not behave in this way, due to my fear of God.
For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself,‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,