Exodus 1:21
Modern Translations
New International Version
And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.

New Living Translation
And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.

English Standard Version
And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

Berean Study Bible
And because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own.

New American Standard Bible
And because the midwives feared God, He established households for them.

NASB 1995
Because the midwives feared God, He established households for them.

NASB 1977
And it came about because the midwives feared God, that He established households for them.

Amplified Bible
And because the midwives feared God [with profound reverence], He established families and households for them.

Christian Standard Bible
Since the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Since the midwives feared God, He gave them families.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.

International Standard Version
Because the midwives feared God, he provided families for them.

NET Bible
And because the midwives feared God, he made households for them.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

New King James Version
And so it was, because the midwives feared God, that He provided households for them.

King James 2000 Bible
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.

New Heart English Bible
It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.

World English Bible
It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.

American King James Version
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

American Standard Version
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them households.

A Faithful Version
And it came to pass because the midwives feared God, that He made them houses.

Darby Bible Translation
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

English Revised Version
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

Webster's Bible Translation
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And because ye midwiues feared God, therefore he made them houses.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And it came to passe, that because the midwifes feared God, he made them houses.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And for so moch as the mydwyues feared God, he made them houses.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And because the mydwiues feared God, he made them houses.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and it comes to pass, because the midwives have feared God, that He makes households for them;

Young's Literal Translation
and it cometh to pass, because the midwives have feared God, that He maketh for them households;

Smith's Literal Translation
And it will be because the midwives will fear God, and he will make houses for them.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And because the midwives feared God, he built houses for them.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And it was that as the midwives were in awe of God, he made them households.

Lamsa Bible
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, he blessed them with families.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that He made them houses.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And as the midwives feared God, they established for themselves families.
















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