Unsung Heroines of the Nile

After Saturday's 'Ten Commandments' movie, I decided to do a bit more research on Moses and that time.
In my reading I found two very-much unsung heroines: Shiphrah and Puah. Heard of them? If I had, I certainly didn't remember but these two Israelite midwives were brave women.
Worried about the increase in Israelites in Egypt - where they'd been invited to live during Joseph's time as he was the then-ruling Pharaoh's top man - the new Pharaoh told these two midwives to kill every baby boy born to their countrywomen. "But the midwives feared GOD and did not," says Exodus 2:17. When Pharaoh called them to the palace to ask why they said,"The Hebrew women are not as Egyptian women, for they are lively and deliver ere the midwives come." Smart. Of course Pharaoh eventually ordered the people to cast every son born to them into the river, but as we know, Moses' mother put her own spin on that ruling, prefering to place him in a river-ready basket before putting him in at 3 months of age. The rest, they say, is history..or movie.You might enjoy reading Exodus 1-3 for a bit more background. Photo herein makes me think of what the Nile may have looked like but in fact was taken last week at Tucson's Aqua Caliente Park. A true desert oasis.