13. and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.
14. They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.
15. The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,
16. “When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live.”
17. But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.