Exodus 1:20-22

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁰ Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.

²¹ And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.

²² Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of the female, ye shall save alive.