"Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of one wasShiphrah and the name of the other Puah;..Therefore God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very mighty. 21 And so it was, because the midwives feared God, that He provided households for them." vv.15, 20-21
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These women are all stars! And what an horn to eve be named in scripture with the descriptions that they feared God. These midwives who seem to play a small role in scripture have their names written in the Book of Life; even this King of Egypt isn't names as a great person in the worlds eyes yet the "nobodies" are named. Households were established by men then so for these women to be provided by God for households is a huge gift! Why the hate toward Israel by the Egyptians? Because of misjudgment and hatred and fear of being thrown over. God blessed those who blessed Israel, but the next generations of Egyptians didn't know Joseph and his God that they turned into getting a punishment from God. The harder the Egyptians made the Israelites work, the more they seemed to multiply. What would your name be written about if there was one sentence of you in the Bible? How has misjudgment caused hatred in your life?
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