CLV(i)
15 Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives (of whom the name of the first one was Shiphrah, and the name of the second Puah.
16 and said: In your midwifery for the Hebrew women, when you see them on the bracing stones, if it is a son then you will put him to death, and if it is a daughter then she will live.
17 Yet the midwives feared the One, Elohim, and they did not act just as the king of Egypt had spoken to them; and they kept the boys alive.
18 Then the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them: For what reason did you do this thing and keep the boys alive?
19 Now the midwives said to Pharaoh: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women, for they are livelier. Ere the midwife comes to them, they have already borne.
20 Hence Elohim dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and were very staunch.
21 So it came to be because the midwives feared the One, Elohim, that He provided households for them.