18. And the king called for them and said: What is that you meant to do, that you would save the men children?
19. They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves are skillful in the office of a midwife; and they are delivered before we come to them.
20. Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.
21. And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.
22. Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of the female, ye shall save alive.