Wisdom of Solomon 11:7

⁷ to rebuke the decree for the slaying of babies, you gave them abundant water beyond all hope, (WEB)

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Wisdom of Solomon 18:4–6

⁴ For the Egyptians well deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned by darkness, they who had imprisoned your children, through whom the incorruptible light of the law was to be given to the race of men. (WEB) ⁵ After they had taken counsel to kill the babes of the… (WEB)

Psalms 33:18–20

¹⁸ Surely the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotion ¹⁹ to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine. ²⁰ Our soul waits for the LORD; He is our help and our shield.

2 Maccabees 8:3–5

³ and to have pity on the city that was suffering ruin and ready to be leveled to the ground, and to listen to the blood that cried out to him, (WEB) ⁴ and to remember the lawless destruction of the innocent infants, and concerning the blasphemies that had been committe… (WEB)

3 Maccabees 5:7–9

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Testament of Joseph 1:15–17

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Greek Esther 10:11–13

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Joshua 9:25–27

²⁵ Now we are in your hands. Do to us whatever seems good and right to you.” ²⁶ So Joshua did this and delivered them from the hands of the Israelites, and they did not kill the Gibeonites. ²⁷ On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers, as they are to this…

2 Esdras 2:5–7

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