Exodus 1:17-21 Neuertheles the mydwyues feared God, & dyd not as the kinge of Egipte commaunded them, but let the children lyue.

Coverdale⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁷ Neuertheles the mydwyues feared God, & dyd not as the kinge of Egipte commaunded them, but let the children lyue. ¹⁸ Then the kynge of Egipte called the mydwyues, and sayde vnto them: Wherfore do ye this, that ye let the children lyue? ¹⁹ The mydwyues answered Pharao: The wemen of the Hebrues are not as the wemen of Egipte, for they are sturdy wemen: or euer the mydwyues come at them, they are delyuered. ²⁰ Therfore God dealt well with the mydwyues. And the people multiplied, and became exceadinge mightie. ²¹ And for so moch as the mydwyues feared God, he made them houses.