Exodus 1:16-18

Jubilee Bible 2000

¹⁶ and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women and see the sex, if it is a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.

¹⁷ But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them but gave the men children their lives.

¹⁸ And the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing and have given the men children their lives?