Exodus 1:14-16

Contemporary English Version

¹⁴ that their lives were miserable. The Egyptians were cruel to the people of Israel and forced them to make bricks and to mix mortar and to work in the fields.

¹⁵ Finally, the king called in Shiphrah and Puah, the two women who helped the Hebrew^[a] mothers when they gave birth. ¹⁶ He told them, “If a Hebrew woman gives birth to a girl, let the child live. If the baby is a boy, kill him!”