16. instructing them: "When you will act as a midwife to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery has arrived: if it is male, put it to death; if it is female, retain it."
17. But the midwives feared God, and so they did not act according to the precept of the king of Egypt, but they kept the males safe.
18. And summoning them, the king said, "What did you intend to do, so that you would save the boys?"