Acts 7:19
Good News Translation
He tricked our ancestors and was cruel to them, forcing them to put their babies out of their homes, so that they would die.

New Revised Standard Version
He dealt craftily with our race and forced our ancestors to abandon their infants so that they would die.

Contemporary English Version
He tricked our ancestors and was cruel to them. He even made them leave their babies outside, so they would die.

New American Bible
He dealt shrewdly with our people and oppressed [our] ancestors by forcing them to expose their infants, that they might not survive.

Douay-Rheims Bible
This same, dealing craftily with our race, afflicted our fathers, that they should expose their children, to the end they might not be kept alive.

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This same, dealing craftily with our race, afflicted our fathers, that they should expose their children, to the end they might not be kept alive.

Exodus 1:9-22 And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we. . . .

Psalm 83:4,5 They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more. . . .

Psalm 105:25 He turned their heart to hate his people: and to deal deceitfully with his servants.

Psalm 129:1-3 A gradual canticle. Often have they fought against me from my youth, let Israel now say. . . .

Revelation 12:4,5 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to be delivered: that, when she should be delivered, he might devour her son. . . .

Context
Stephen's Address to the Sanhedrin
18Till another king arose in Egypt, who knew not Joseph. 19This same, dealing craftily with our race, afflicted our fathers, that they should expose their children, to the end they might not be kept alive. 20At the same time was Moses born: and he was acceptable to God. Who was nourished three months in his father's house.…
Cross References
Exodus 1:8
In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph:

Exodus 1:10
Come let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome us, depart out of the land.

Exodus 1:14
And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.

Exodus 1:16
Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive.

Exodus 1:22
Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of the female, ye shall save alive.

Psalm 105:25
He turned their heart to hate his people: and to deal deceitfully with his servants.

Acts 7:18
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