The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women. They are so healthy that they have their babies before a midwife arrives.”
So the king of Egypt called for the midwives. He asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”
God was good to the midwives. So the people increased in number and became very strong.
“The king ordered me to do something,” David answered the priest Ahimelech, “and he told me, ‘No one must know anything about this mission I’m sending you on and about the orders I’ve given you. I’ve stationed my young men at a certain place.’ ”