But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the Lord God.”

So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, with their kneading troughs bound up in their clothing on their shoulders.

The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women – for the Hebrew women are vigorous; they give birth before the midwife gets to them!”

Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a menace to us? Release the people so that they may serve the Lord their God. Do you not know that Egypt is destroyed?”