¹⁶ and he said, “When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a ^(A)son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

²² So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, ^(A)“Every son who is ^[a]born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

³⁸ But when the vinedressers saw the son, they said among themselves, ^(A)‘This is the heir. ^(B)Come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’

^4 (A)His tail drew a third ^(B)of the stars of heaven ^(C)and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood ^(D)before the woman who was ready to give birth, ^(E)to devour her Child as soon as it was born.