The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, “When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live.” But the midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but they let the boys live.
Celebrating Shiphrah and Puah
Hebrew midwives who chose God over the king
Who chose love over fear
Who chose life over death
These powerful women deserve
not to simply be a prologue or a prequel
to the life of Moses
or the story of the Exodus
these women demand
to be celebrated
for who they were
Today’s “nasty women”
Women who persisted
Women who refused
to collude with power
or submit to oppression
and who used their gifts and skills
to set in motion
a revolution
Shiphrah and Puah
Say their names
Celebrate their lives
Women of substance
in the mission of God.
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