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Shifra

Shifra is one of the two Hebrew midwives mentioned in Exodus 1 who refuses Pharaoh’s orders to kill the boy children, instead enabling them to live. She, along with her partner Puah, is instrumental in beginning the process leading to the Exodus. Shifra is often identified as Jochebed, Moses’ mother.

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