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When he told them (Ex. 1: 16): “[…] look at the birthstool [ha-avnayim, literally, stones],” he entrusted them with an important sign, namely, that when a woman is about to give birth, her thighs become as cold as stone, thus teaching them when her time was near.
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When he told them (Ex. 1: 16): “[…] look at the birthstool [ha-avnayim, literally, stones],” he entrusted them with an important sign, namely, that when a woman is about to give birth, her thighs become as cold as stone, thus teaching them when her time was near.
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On the birthstool it has held her close; it has lodged in her muscles for so many days of work, in her chest for so many nights of hunger, that it has lost all terror and is merely pain.
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The story of the Exodus plays a large and understandable part in black history: Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, `When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him.’
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