Quotes About Midwives

I also learned much about the profession, including the fact that in every other highly industrialized country, midwives are highly valued health care professionals.

If men wish to control their women, they must find a way to control midwives.

Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,

The midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had instructed; they let the boys live.

The midwives answered Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife arrives.”

So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became even more numerous.

And because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own.