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Acts 7:19

American Standard Version

19 The same dealt craftily with our race, and ill-treated our fathers, that they should cast out their babes to the end they might not live.

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Christian Standard Bible

He dealt deceitfully with our race and oppressed our ancestors by making them abandon their infants outside so that they wouldn’t survive.

English Standard Version

He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, so that they would not be kept alive.

King James Version

The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.

New American Standard Bible

It was he who shrewdly took advantage of our nation and mistreated our fathers in order that they would abandon their infants in the Nile, so that they would not survive.

New International Version

He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to throw out their newborn babies so that they would die.

New King James Version

This man dealt treacherously with our people, and oppressed our forefathers, making them expose their babies, so that they might not live.

New Living Translation

This king exploited our people and oppressed them, forcing parents to abandon their newborn babies so they would die.

World English Bible

The same took advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to abandon their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.