Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”
Exodus 1:22 · WEBRead the whole chapter →
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In parallel with (this verse)Esther 3:13
Pharaoh's decree to cast the sons into the river; the same enemy, a new empire, an older grudge.
“Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.”