Exodus 1:14-16

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁴ and made their lives bitter with difficult labour in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.^(A)

¹⁵ The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives – the first, whose name was Shiphrah, and the second, whose name was Puah –  ¹⁶ ‘When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them as they deliver. If the child is a son, kill him, but if it’s a daughter, she may live.’