Exodus 1:17-19

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁷ But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.

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.