¹⁶ “When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them as they deliver.^[a] If the child is a son, kill him, but if it’s a daughter, she may live.”

²² Pharaoh then commanded all his people: “You must throw every son born to the Hebrews^[a] into the Nile, but let every daughter live.”^(A)

² The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son; when she saw that he was beautiful,^[a] she hid him for three months.^(A)