Exodus 1:19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.