Exodus 1:20-22

Expanded Bible

²⁰ God ·was good [showed favor] to the ·nurses [midwives]. And the Hebrew people continued to grow in number, so they became even stronger. ²¹ Because the ·nurses [midwives] feared God [Prov. 1:7], he gave them families of their own.

²² So ·the king [^LPharaoh] commanded all his people, “Every time a boy is born to the Hebrews, you must throw him into the Nile River, but let all the girl babies live.”