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BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Because the midwives feared God, He established households for them. Exodus 1:21 NASB Midwives – Name one hundred important Biblical people. Better include some of these women since without them Israel would have expired in Egypt. But I’ll bet you can’t name them, or even one hundred that have names. I’ll bet that after you…

Translating without Reading

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.  Exodus 1:21  ESV Families – Here’s the problem.  The pronoun expression “them” is lahem.  It is the preposition le plus the pronoun hem.  But the pronoun here is masculine in spite of the fact that we assume it refers to the midwives.  Something doesn’t look…