Women come up in Genesis:
Eve created,
Sarah laughed,
Rebecca and Rachel beloved,
Hagar and Leah unloved,
Dinah raped,
Tamar shrewd.
Women of action remembered also for
Their marriages,
Their offspring,
Their place in the patriarchy.
And then we come to Exodus one,
With Hebrews rapidly multiplying.
Pharaoh calls the midwives,
Shiphrah and Puah.
Remembered not for their place in a family tree,
But for what they did:
They feared God,
They disobeyed Pharaoh.
We remember them by name still:
Shiphrah and Puah.
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