Exodus 1:16-22

16“When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth, look at the child when you deliver it. If it’s a boy, kill it, but if it’s a girl, let it live.”

17However, the midwives feared God and didn’t obey the king of Egypt’s orders. They let the boys live.

18So the king of Egypt called for the midwives. He asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”

19The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women. They are so healthy that they have their babies before a midwife arrives.”

20God was good to the midwives. So the people increased in number and became very strong.

21Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.

22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people to throw into the Nile every ⌞Hebrew⌟ boy that was born, but to let every girl live.