6897. 'And I say, I will cause you to come up out of the affliction of Egypt' means raising up and delivering from molestation by false factual knowledge. This is clear from the meaning of 'causing to come up' as raising towards more interior things, dealt with in 3084, 4539, 5406, 5817, 6007 (raising people towards more interior things is raising them from molestation by falsities to the truths of faith and forms of the good of faith, and therefore 'causing to go up' also means deliverance); from the meaning of 'affliction' as molestation, dealt with in 6663, 6851; and from the meaning of 'Egypt' as false factual knowledge, dealt with in 6651, 6679, 6683.

6683. 'And the midwives said to Pharaoh' means a discernment regarding that true factual knowledge in the natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying' in the historical narratives of the Word as a discernment, dealt with often; from the meaning of 'the midwives' as true factual knowledge in the natural, dealt with just above in 6681; and from the representation of 'Pharaoh' as false factual knowledge in general, also dealt with above, in 6679, 6681.