Exodus 1:16-18

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁶ “When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them as they deliver.^[a] If the child is a son, kill him, but if it’s a daughter, she may live.” ¹⁷ The Hebrew midwives, however, feared God^(A) and did not do as the king of Egypt had told them;^(B) they let the boys live. ¹⁸ So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this and let the boys live?”