Exodus 1:19

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”

Cross References

Exodus 1:18

So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and allowed the boys to live?”

Exodus 1:20

So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became very strong.

1 Samuel 21:2

David said to the priest Ahimelech, “The king has charged me with a matter, and said to me, ‘No one must know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.’ I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place.