12But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians.
13And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:
14And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.
15And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew women who gave help at the time of childbirth (the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah),
16When you are looking after the Hebrew women in childbirth, if it is a son you are to put him to death; but if it is a daughter, she may go on living.
17But the women had the fear of God, and did not do as the king of Egypt said, but let the male children go on living.
18And the king of Egypt sent for the women, and said to them, Why have you done this, and let the male children go on living?
