Holy Scripture
Exodus 1:19
A church father on this verse
“Indeed, in regard to other Hebrew women you find it written that the Hebrew women give birth before the midwives arrive. This is so because the souls of the just do not wait upon branches of learning arranged according to kinds of knowledge, nor do they require assistance in parturition, but they bring forth their off…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
19And the midwives said to Pharaoh, The Hebrew women are not as the women of Egypt, for they are delivered before the midwives go in to them. So they bore children.
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In context
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?
— Exodus 1:19 —
20And God did well to the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very strong.
21And as the midwives feared God, they established for themselves families.