Neville Goddard on Exodus 1:18-19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 1 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

Exodus 1:18-19

Biblical Context

Pharaoh asks why the male children were saved; the midwives answer that Hebrew women are lively and deliver before the midwives come.

Neville's Inner Vision

Pharaoh is the egoic demand of limitation in your mind, a fear-based king demanding obedience. The midwives are your inner faculties of perception and nurturing, faithful to life and truth. When they answer that the Hebrew women are lively and deliver ere the midwives come, they reveal a deep spiritual law: in the inner kingdom, birth occurs because life is already alive in you, independent of any outer decree. To awaken is to align with the I AM, the awareness that births new states the moment you entertain them. This narrative invites you to see righteousness and mercy at work, not as external favors but as the living structure of consciousness that refuses to condemn life. Obedience here is to the inner decree of freedom, not to a tyrant of fear. When you practice, you invite the belief that the new state exists now, and by feeling it real you cause the outer scene to follow the inner birth. Your deliverance is a law of consciousness that waits within, ready to be realized.