Exodus 1
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Exodus 1:15-17

15Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah;

16and he said, “When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

17But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.

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