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Midwifery
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Genesis 35:17When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”Exodus 1:15The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,Exodus 1:16and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”Exodus 1:17But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.Exodus 1:18The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?”Exodus 1:19The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”Exodus 1:20God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.Exodus 1:21It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.
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