Bible Verses About Childbirth Regulations

Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.

Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.

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.

And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the Lord: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.

Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.

And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.

Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.

Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.

But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.

She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.

But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.

Who shall offer it before the Lord, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.

If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?

This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;

And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.

For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:

Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The Lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;

The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.

Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:

As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.

One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.

For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.