16. and he said, “When you perform the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the stools, if it is a son, then you must kill him, but if it is a daughter, then she may live.”
17. However, the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but kept the male children alive.
18. The king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this thing and preserved the male children’s lives?”
19. The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives come to them.”
20. Therefore God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very mighty.
21. So it happened that because the midwives feared God, He gave them families.
22. Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, “You must cast every son that is born into the river, and you must preserve every daughter’s life.”