But
if it be a maid, let it live. Notwithstanding the midwives feared
God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them: but saved
the men children. Then the king of Egypt called for the midwives
and said unto them: why have ye dealt on this manner and have
saved the men children? And the midwives answered Pharao, that the
Hebrews' women were not as the women of Egypt: but were sturdy
women, and were delivered yer the midwives came at them. And God
therefore dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied
and waxed very mighty. And because the midwives feared God, he
made them houses. Then Pharao charged all his people saying: All
the men children that are born, cast into the river and save the
maid children alive.
Chapter .ij.
And there went a man of the house of Levi and took a daughter of
Levi. And the wife conceived and bare a son. And when she saw that
it was a proper child, she hid him three months long. And when she
could no longer hide him, she took a basket of bulrushes and
daubed it with slime and pitch, and laid the child therein, and
put it in the flags by the river's brink. And his sister stood
afar off, to wete what would come of it. And the daughter of
Pharao came down to the river to wash herself, and her maidens
walked along by the river's side.
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