Part 12 · Chapter 2

However, it is proper to know who is the cause that makes the fetus be pushed downward and come out. And the matter will be understood with the verse, “And he said, when you deliver the Hebrew women,” etc. And behold, our sages, of blessed memory, said that the woman, at the time of her birth, her hips harden and grow cold like stones. And this is the matter of “and you shall see them upon the stones.”