Is it not a mark of grace in these women? Proverbs 1:7. And was it not similar to the faith of Rahab? Hebrews 11:31.
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Exodus 1:16-17
16 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.
17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.