¹⁶ and he said, When you do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the stools^*; if he^◦ be a son, then you shall·​·put· him ·to·​·death; and if it be a daughter, then she^◦ shall live.

⁴ One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.