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The feminine proper name Shiphrah is also attested as the name of an Asiatic slave woman in an eighteenth-century b.c.e. papyrus from Egypt.
Shiphrah: Bible. 2009
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Like Shiphrah and Puah so many years before, midwives in the 19th and 20th centuries calmed the mother during labor and cleaned and cared for newborn babies.
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Like Shiphrah and Puah so many years before, midwives in the 19th and 20th centuries calmed the mother during labor and cleaned and cared for newborn babies.
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The verse describes the heavens that were created by God for Israel, and it was Shiphrah who returned Israel to their Father in heaven (Eccl. Rabbah 7: 3; Ex. Rabbah 1: 13).
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For the Hebrew midwives, see the entries: “Shiphrah,” “Puah.”
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However, according to one unique tradition, Shiphrah and Puah were non-Jewish midwives, who were said to be pious women and true converts (Midrash Tadshe, Ozar ha-Midrashim [Eisenstein], p. 474).
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According to one Rabbinic position, Shiphrah and Puah were mother and daughter: Jochebed and Miriam; and according to another view, daughter-in-law and mother-in-law: Jochebed and Elisheba daughter of Amminadab.
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God returned her child to her, thus granting her a part of her reward for keeping alive the Hebrew boys (Ex. Rabbah 1: 25; for the identification of Jochebed with Shiphrah, see above).
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Puah was one of the two Hebrew midwives (Shiphrah and Puah) who delivered the children of the Israelites during the Egyptian servitude.
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The Rabbis identify Jochebed with Shiphrah, one of the two Hebrew midwives (Shiphrah and Puah) who delivered the children of the Israelites during the Egyptian servitude.
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