Exodus 1:17-19

CLV(i) 17 Yet the midwives feared the One, Elohim, and they did not act just as the king of Egypt had spoken to them; and they kept the boys alive. 18 Then the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them: For what reason did you do this thing and keep the boys alive? 19 Now the midwives said to Pharaoh: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women, for they are livelier. Ere the midwife comes to them, they have already borne.