Neville Goddard on Exodus 1:15-21 - 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.

17But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

18And 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?

19And 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.

20Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.

21And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

Exodus 1:15-21

Biblical Context

Pharaoh commands harm to Hebrew male infants, but the midwives Shiphrah and Puah fear God and save the boys. Pharaoh questions them; they justify their mercy, and God blesses them with prosperity as the people multiply.

Neville's Inner Vision

Pharaoh's decree is the outer image of a deeper fear in the mind. The midwives are the inner faculties of intuition that refuse to obey a death sentence on vitality. They fear the I AM—awareness—and move not from fear but from reverent trust in Life. Because they preserve the seed, the impulse of growth multiplies the people, and God blesses them with houses. In this parable, your consciousness learns that when you acknowledge you are the I AM, you choose life over a lie of limitation. Your fearless, faithful inner agents revise external threats by acting in alignment with life, and Providence returns as abundance and steady structure—houses of prosperity and meaning. The message is simple: your present conditions bend to the state you hold within; fear dissipates before the living reality of your awareness, and life expands where you dare to trust.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Close your eyes and see Shiphrah and Puah as your inner faculties. Revise lack into life by affirming 'I AM' and feel your inner household expanding as proof of Life.