13 And the Egyptians ruthlessly compelled the Israelites to work.
14 And they made their lives bitter with hard work with mortar and with bricks and with all sorts of work in the field—with all their work in which they ruthlessly enslaved them.
15 And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives—of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the second was Puah—
16 and he said, “When you help the Hebrews give birth, you will look upon the pairs of testicles; if he is a son, you will put him to death, and if she is a daughter, she will live.”
17 But the midwives feared God, and they did not do as the king of Egypt had said to them. They let the boys live.
18 And the king of Egypt summoned the midwives, and he said to them, “Why have you done this thing and let the boys live?”
19 And the midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, because they are vigorous; before the midwife comes to them, they have given birth.”