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# midwives
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These were women who helped a woman give birth to a baby. See how you translated this in [Exodus 1:16](../01/16.md).
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# Why have you done this, and let the baby boys live?
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Pharaoh asked this question to rebuke the midwives for allowing the male children to live. This rhetorical question can be translated as a statement. Alternate translation: "You have disobeyed my order by not killing the male babies!" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
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