Exodus 1:17-19

New Catholic Bible

¹⁷ But the midwives feared God. They did not do what the king of Egypt had ordered them to do. They let the babies live.

¹⁸ The king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this and let the babies live?” ¹⁹ The midwives answered Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptians. They are full of life. Before the midwife arrives, they have already given birth.”