Exodus 1:14-16

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹⁴ and they made ^(A)their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they rigorously ^[a]imposed on them.

¹⁵ Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom ^[b]was named Shiphrah and the other ^[c]was named Puah; ¹⁶ and he said, “When you are helping the Hebrew women to give birth and see them upon the birthstool, ^(B)if it is a son, then you shall put him to death; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”