Exodus 1:15-16 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, “When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth ...

... and observe them on the delivery stool, if it is a boy, kill him.”

As a nurse, this is one of my very favorite verses in all of Scripture. Of course the midwives ignored the king and chose to honor God instead. Their choice caused the life of Moses to be spared, who would deliver all their people from bondage. I wonder what the king’s name was? He was so insignificant to the narrative we don’t even know which King it was, but we are given the names of the important ones in the story—Shiphrah and Puah. From them, we learn.