Exodus 1:22

"Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”"

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From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The extreme cruelty of the measure does not involve improbability. Hatred of strangers was always a characteristic of the Egyptians (seeGenesis 43:32), and was likely to be stronger than ever after the expulsion of an alien race.

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