Exodus 1:17-19

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁷ Nevertheless, the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them but saved the male children.

¹⁸ Then the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this, and have saved the male children?”

¹⁹ And the midwives answered Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not as the women of Egypt. For they are vigorous and are delivered before the midwives approach them.”