13. So the Egyptians reduced the Israelites to cruel slavery,
14. making life bitter for them with hard labor, at mortar and brick and all kinds of field work—cruelly oppressed in all their labor.
15. The king of Egypt told the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was called Shiphrah and the other Puah,
16. “When you act as midwives for the Hebrew women, look on the birthstool: if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she may live.”