Exodus 1:16
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
“When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.”

Young's Literal Translation
and saith, ‘When ye cause the Hebrew women to bear, and have looked on the children; if it [is] a son—then ye have put him to death; and if it [is] a daughter—then she hath lived.’

King James Bible
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.

Hebrew
“When you help the Hebrew
הָֽעִבְרִיּ֔וֹת (hā·‘iḇ·rî·yō·wṯ)
Article | Noun - proper - feminine plural
Strong's 5680: Hebrews -- perhaps descendant of Eber, also another name for an Israelite

women give birth,
בְּיַלֶּדְכֶן֙ (bə·yal·leḏ·ḵen)
Preposition-b | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | second person feminine plural
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

observe
וּרְאִיתֶ֖ן (ū·rə·’î·ṯen)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person feminine plural
Strong's 7200: To see

them as
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

they deliver.
הָאָבְנָ֑יִם (hā·’ā·ḇə·nā·yim)
Article | Noun - md
Strong's 70: A pair of stones, a potter's wheel, a midwife's stool

If
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

[the child]
הוּא֙ (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

is a son,
בֵּ֥ן (bên)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1121: A son

kill
וַהֲמִתֶּ֣ן (wa·hă·mit·ten)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - second person feminine plural
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

him;
אֹת֔וֹ (’ō·ṯōw)
Direct object marker | third person masculine singular
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

but if
וְאִם־ (wə·’im-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

it is
הִ֖יא (hî)
Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

a daughter,
בַּ֥ת (baṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1323: A daughter

let her live.”
וָחָֽיָה׃ (wā·ḥā·yāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 2425: To live, to revive

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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