6678. 'And the midwives feared God' means that true factual knowledge was kept safe because it was kept so by the Divine. This is clear from the meaning of 'fearing God' as keeping what the Divine has commanded, for people who fear God keep His commandments, though - since all holy fear, and consequently obedience to and keeping of commandments, have a Divine and not at all human origin - a keeping by the Divine is what is meant by 'feared God'; and from the meaning of 'the midwives' as the natural where true factual knowledge resides, dealt within 4588, 6673, 6675.