Exodus 1:19-21

New International Version

¹⁹ The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”^(A)

²⁰ So God was kind to the midwives^(B) and the people increased and became even more numerous. ²¹ And because the midwives feared^(C) God, he gave them families^(D) of their own.