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16 instructing them: “When you will act as a midwife to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery has arrived: if it is male, put it to death; if it is female, retain it.” 17 But the midwives feared God, and so they did not act according to the precept of the king of Egypt, but they kept the males safe. Exodus 1:16-17, Catholic Public Domain Version. Public domain.
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