Midwives
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the midwives · الولائد
spoken of as
1 expressionthe midwives1 mention
Adversus Marcionem (Latin)
but by which, as good, he so loves the little ones that in Egypt he did good to the midwives, who protected the Hebrew births endangered by the edict of Pharaoh.
in the texts
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The women attending birth in a totem tribe, who announce the infant in the totem's name at the moment of delivery.
If he is of the tribe of the Wolf, the midwives cry out at his delivery, «A little wolf has been born to us», and they sew into the child's shirt a piece of a wolf's eye or of its heart.
Adversus Marcionem
The Hebrew midwives in Egypt who protected infants from Pharaoh's edict, cited as an example of the Creator's love for little ones.
but by which, as good, he so loves the little ones that in Egypt he did good to the midwives, who protected the Hebrew births endangered by the edict of Pharaoh.