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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.
6662. 'Pithom and Raamses' means the essential nature of them, that is to say, of the teachings composed of falsified truths. This is clear from names in the Word, that they mean the essential nature and the state of the matter under discussion.
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