Exodus 1:15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah. 16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
In the land of Egypt, which was a pagan nation, even pharaoh recognized those distinctions given by God at creation. He may have been quite stubborn, and he may have been cruel, but not for once did he ever mix up the distinctions between a male and a female, as the above verses reveal.
How would the midwives distinguish between a son or a daughter? And how would pharaoh know the difference? It inevitably points us back to creation, when God made such distinctions as plain as day. However, because of the fall of our first parents, all who have come after are riddled with imperfections both spiritual and physical, and as time went by, the effects of sin in the natural world, caused deviations which God never originally intended.
These imperfections include imperfect feelings and desires, which conflict with God’s stated order, and thus, we must decide whether or not, we will allow imperfection to dictate morality, or whether we will allow the word of God to be our moral compass.
Judges 17:6 In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!