The Torah says God made the midwives "houses." The Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Exodus (1:21) tells us exactly what those houses were.
"And forasmuch as the midwives feared before the Lord, they obtained for themselves a good name unto the ages; and the Memra of the Lord up-builded for them a royal house, even the house of the high priesthood."
Think about what is happening. Shifra (Jokheved) becomes the mother of Aaron — the first high priest. Puvah (Miriam) is the prophetess whose descendants will serve in the Temple. The two women who risked their lives to save babies in Mizraim are not simply rewarded. They are made into the root of Israel's two holiest institutions: the kehunah (priesthood) and the malkhut (royalty, through later Levitical lines).
This is Jewish theology at its most precise. When you save a life, you don't just save a life. You shift the architecture of the future. Every priest who would ever light the menorah, every high priest who would ever enter the Holy of Holies on Yom Kippur — his lineage runs through two exhausted midwives who told a tyrant "no."
The Targum's phrase is worth savoring: "a good name unto the ages." Not wealth. Not power. A name. The midwives acted under threat of execution; they did not act for glory. And precisely because they did not seek it, glory adopted them permanently.
Beloved, the quiet courage of a single "no" can become the cornerstone of a Temple.