02:001:011 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
02:001:012 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
02:001:013 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
02:001:014 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
02:001:015 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
02:001:016 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
02:001:017 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
02:001:018 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
02:001:019 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
02:001:020 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.