The Importance of Faith in God

The Israelites are suffering just grave injustice, right? As a people they were receiving from every side, this every conceivable kind of injustice. Jim: Why do they go after the male babies? Well, the text doesn't explicitly state it, but I suspect that it has to do with the way that the males are going to rise up and be potential warriors. Sam: There's an interesting contrast here between the fact that Pharaoh, as we mentioned earlier, is never named. And here the two lowly Hebrew midwives and their names are recorded for all of eternity.