




“And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.” — Exodus 1:16
The proposal of Pharaoh to the Hebrew midwives was that if any of the Hebrew women came for their services, they should kill the male new born babies. That meant that people would come all the way to the place of birth, push out their baby, and go home in tears because their baby had been killed...