Exodus 1:16-22

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.

18So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and saved the male children alive?”

19And the midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are lively and give birth before the midwives come to them.”

20Therefore God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very mighty.

21And so it was, because the midwives feared God, that He provided households for them.

22So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”