Exodus 1:15 - 22
ESV - 15 Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah. 16 "When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live."
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