Exodus 1:13-16

1:14

lives <02416> [their lives.]

[in mortar.]

rigorous <06531> [was with rigour.]

1:16

observe .... delivery <07200 070> [and see them.]

Or, rather, "and ye see them by the stone-troughs;" for so {ovnayim,} from {aven,} a stone, seems to signify (compare ch. 7:19), in which they washed the new-born infants. See this subject fully illustrated in Fragments to Calmet, Nos. 312, 313.

kill <04191> [then ye shall.]