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When you are looking after the Hebrew women in childbirth, if it is a son you are to put him to death; but if it is a daughter, she may go on living.
6660. 'To afflict them with burdens' means increasing distress caused by forms of hard service. This is clear from the meaning of 'afflicting' as increasing distress; and from the meaning of 'burdens', which were the tributes, as forms of hard service.
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