“And when I passed by you and saw you weltering in your blood, I said to you, ‘In your blood, live.' Yes I said to you, ‘In your blood live.' ”
Yahweh found her in her dreadful state, kicking and struggling in her own blood and had pity on her. There is divided opinion as to whether ‘in your blood' is part of what Yahweh said or not. Either we read ‘I said to you in your blood, “Live”, where there is huge emphasis on the fact that Israel was lying in her blood, to bring out her dreadful state (much blood would have been spilled in Egypt), or the phrase means basically ‘I said to you, “out of imminent death, live” '. Either way the important fact is that Yahweh commanded and gave life. Without Him she would have ceased to be. Life began again when Israel was spared at the Passover and crossed the Sea of Reeds. But it is also a beautiful picture of the new birth, something experienced by God's true people in every age.
Several versions and the LXX omit the repetition of ‘in your blood live', but it is typical of ancient literature and is probably repeated for emphasis. It was the moment of deliverance from which all else followed.