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Acts 7:19

This one, encompassing our kindred, afflicted our fathers, so that they would expose their infants, lest they be kept alive
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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.

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.

New International Version

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