⁶ But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof.

¹⁹ The woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.

²⁵ In like manner wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?

²³ By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

³ For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

¹⁷ Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house.

²⁶ The king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.

² But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, [and put them] in the bedchamber; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain;

¹³ Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

⁴ for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Yahweh, that Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

² It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.

⁸ Before they were laid down, she came up to them on the roof;

⁸ When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.

² The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.

¹⁵ The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,

¹⁶ and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live."

¹⁷ But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

¹⁸ The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive?"

¹⁹ The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them."

²⁰ God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

²¹ It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.