Glancing Through the Scriptures!

(KJV.)  EXODUS 10-16

Mose's Birth.

(10)  Come on,  let us deal wisely with them;  lest they multiply, and it come to pass that when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.

(11)  Therefore they did set over them taskmaster to afflict them with their burdens.  And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamess.

(12)  But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew.  And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

(13)  And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour.

(14)  And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick and in all manner of service in the field:  all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

(15)  And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah.

(16)  And he said; When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women and see them upon the stools;  if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

ADDENDUM

If the slaves of the Egyptians were men:  why did the King of Egypt instruct the Hebrew midwives to terminate the lives of the male-born Israelites?