The king of Egypt told the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was called Shiphrah and the other Puah,
making life bitter for them with hard labor, at mortar and brick and all kinds of field work—cruelly oppressed in all their labor. Command to the Midwives.
“When you act as midwives for the Hebrew women, look on the birthstool: if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she may live.”
“I am a Hebrew,” he replied; “I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”
Now, she had led them to the roof, and hidden them among her stalks of flax spread out there.