Exodus 1:16
“Thus too it has been said that the Pharaoh of Egypt was a type of the devil, in that he cruelly ordered the males to be cast into the Nile and permitted the females to live. So too the devil, ruling over the great Egypt of the world "from Adam unto Moses," made an effort to carry off and destroy the male and rational…”
Source: Septuagint
16And he said, When ye do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and they are about to be delivered, if it be a male, kill it; but if a female, save it.
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14And they embittered their life by hard labors, in the clay and in brickmaking, and all the works in the plains, according to all the works, wherein they caused them to serve with violence.
15And the king of the Egyptians spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews; the name of the one was, Shiphrah; and the name of the second, Puah.
— Exodus 1:16 —
17But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt appointed them; and they saved the male children alive.
18And the king of Egypt called the midwives, and said to them, Why is it that ye have done this thing, and saved the male children alive?