9 And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us. 10 ⁱCome, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”

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, ^qif it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”