seekeroftruth
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Exodus 1:1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah; 3 Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin; 4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher. 5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.
6 Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, 7 but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.
8 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. 9 “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. 10 Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”
11 So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites 13 and worked them ruthlessly. 14 They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.
15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, 16 “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.” 17 The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. 18 Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”
19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”
20 So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. 21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.
22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.”
Here's that link to the commentary I use.Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we; come, let us deal shrewdly with them: The ancient Egyptians were famous — or infamous — for their proud sense of racial superiority towards all other people. It isn’t surprising to see them afraid and discriminating against this strong minority group in their midst, which looked as if it would not be a minority very long.
In the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us: At the time, the Egyptians feared invasion from the Hittites of the north. If the Hebrews among them joined with the Hittites, it posed a significant threat to their security.
They set taskmasters over them… they built for Pharaoh supply cities: When the children of Israel were set to slave labor they built many of the great cities and monuments in Egypt — though not the pyramids, which were built much earlier. Since we don’t know exactly when this forced labor began, we don’t know how long it lasted. Some estimate the slavery lasted 284 years, others 134 years.
There is a famous wall painting on an ancient tomb from Thebes, Egypt (modern Luxor) — the tomb of the overseer of brick-making slaves during the reign of Thutmose III. “The painting shows such overseers armed with heavy whips. Their rank is denoted by the long staff held in their hands and the Egyptian hieroglyphic determinative of the head and neck of a giraffe.” (Kaiser)
Can you imagine it now? Have you ever watched a TV, movie, or documentary that showed a live birth? Have you yourself witnessed a live birth? Have you ever watched "Call the Midwife" on PBS? Can you see it now... the midwife sitting between the woman's knees... pulling a baby out and up? That's when the sex of the baby was discovered in the days of the Israelites in Egypt. That's when the midwife was to murder the boy babies while allowing the females to survive.
In modern society, as reported so completely on WAVA radio, this is how partial birth abortion happens. According to the reports on partial birth abortion, the baby is not considered a live birth as long as one part of the baby is still in the womb. It's not murder if the baby is still "in the womb" when it dies. It's just "still born" if it dies in the womb. So technically, if one little toe is still in the womb, and the baby is "not viable" they can finish the job with a simple jab to the spine at the base of the neck. [in modern society, this is when the stem cells are harvested].
In modern society, we can detect the sex of the baby much quicker with ultrasound. In modern society, we can abort the baby before it grows to full gestation. In modern society, babies can be declared "non-viable" due to injury or disease or malformation in the womb as early as 6 weeks by a doctor. Oh, and in China, until recently it was female babies rather than male babies going to the knife. That was the Chinese birth control until just recently.
Y'all know me... I'm Pro-Life. So, I could go on for hours and hours against this... but that's not the subject of these verses. The point is, Israelite babies were being murdered. The king and Pharaoh just disguised the murder as "non-viable". It was actually genocide.
It was a matter of National Security according to the commentary. Pharaoh was afraid the Hittites would attack and the Israelites would join in on the Hittite side. Egyptian troops would be vastly outnumbered. So, Pharaoh called for the partial birth destruction of all male babies. as a matter of National Security.
Let's go back to Noah for a hot second. The Hittites were descendants of Ham. The Egyptians and the Israelites were from the descendants of Shem. As we've read in Genesis, that was a long time ago and family ties, well they weren't dependable. Esau would have killed his brother Jacob if given the chance. It's not certain that the Israelites would have joined the Hittites against the Egyptians at this time. National Security... yeah right!
To be fair to Pharaoh, they did try to work the Israelites so hard that they would have the energy to create babies. But good Israelite women were happy to be barefoot and pregnant.
So, the first chapter of Exodus opens with Genocidal Partial Birth Abortions, disguised as National Security.
Genocidal Partial Birth Abortions, disguised as National Security.
