Exodus 1:18-20

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁸ And the king called for them and said: What is that you meant to do, that you would save the men children?

¹⁹ They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves are skillful in the office of a midwife; and they are delivered before we come to them.

²⁰ Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.