19. The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women. They are so healthy that they have their babies before a midwife arrives.”
20. God was good to the midwives. So the people increased in number and became very strong.
21. Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.
22. Then Pharaoh commanded all his people to throw into the Nile every ⌊Hebrew⌋ boy that was born, but to let every girl live.