Exodus 1:15 DBY

¹³  And the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with harshness;

¹⁴  and they embittered their life with hard labour in clay and bricks, and in all manner of labour in the field: all their labour with which they made them serve was with harshness.

¹⁵  And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives -- of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other was Puah --

¹⁶  and he said, When ye help the Hebrew women in bearing, and see [them] on the stool, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him, but if a daughter, then she shall live.

¹⁷  But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt had said to them, but saved the male children alive.