Neville Goddard on Exodus 1:15-16 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 1 in context

Scripture Focus

15And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

16And 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.

Exodus 1:15-16

Biblical Context

Pharaoh’s command seeks to annihilate male birth; the Hebrew midwives Shiphrah and Puah protect life, embodying faithful resistance. The story invites inner alignment with life over fear as the path to deliverance.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville Goddard’s language, the Pharaoh is a fear-based belief within your consciousness, an outer decree that would kill life. The midwives—Shiphrah and Puah—are two inner faculties of discernment and mercy that refuse to obey death and instead nurture birth. Their act is symbolic: the living life they preserve represents a truth already present in the I AM, not something to be manufactured. When you reinterpret the scene as an inner movement of consciousness, you see that the ‘son’ to be killed is a belief in lack, while the ‘daughter’ that lives signals new possibilities always ready for birth. Deliverance and justice arise not from outward rebellion but from aligning with life-affirming states. By honoring mercy, courage, and faithful obedience to life, you awaken a personal exodus—escaping the tyranny of fear and entering the promised land of awareness.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and say, 'I am the midwife of life within me.' Revise every fear-based decree as false, and feel the moment of deliverance already unfolding in you.