Male Infants in Egypt

Exodus 1:15. And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shifrah, and the name of the other Puah. 16. And he said, “When you do the office of a midwife for the Hebrew women and see them upon the stools, if it is a son then you will kill him, but if it is a daughter, then she will live.”

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