16. “When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them as they deliver. If the child is a son, kill him, but if it’s a daughter, she may live.”
17. The Hebrew midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.
18. So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this and let the boys live? ”
19. The midwives said to Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife can get to them.”
20. So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became very numerous.