And the chiefs of the people of Pharaoh said (to Pharaoh): ‘Will you leave Musa (Moses) and his (revolutionary) people to launch strife in the country? And (then) will they spare you and your gods?’ He said: ‘(No,) we shall now kill their sons (to exhaust their male numerical strength) and let their women live (so that they may be wronged). And surely we hold sway over them.’