and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birth-stool; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
and he commaundide to hem, Whanne ye schulen do þe office of medewyues to Ebrew wymmen, and þe tyme of childberyng schal come, if it is a knaue child, sle ye him; if it is a womman, kepe ye.