Perhaps they didn't lie. There are women who are "vigorous " and labor very quickly. Maybe they knew the Hebrew women all labor fast. So perhaps they didn't lie. Maybe they intentionally got to the women after they knew they had given birth so that they couldn't carry out the king's order.

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