Exodus-1

(New International Version)

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  • 1 The Israelites Oppressed These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:
  • 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah;
  • 3 Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin;
  • 4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
  • 5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy 1:5 Masoretic Text (see also Gen. 46:27 ); Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint (see also Acts 7:14 and note at Gen. 46:27 ) seventy-five in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.
  • 6 Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,
  • 7 but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.
  • 8 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.
  • 9 “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us.
  • 10 Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”
  • 11 So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
  • 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites
  • 13 and worked them ruthlessly.
  • 14 They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.
  • 15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,
  • 16 “When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.”
  • 17 The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live.
  • 18 Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”
  • 19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”
  • 20 So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous.
  • 21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.
  • 22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.”
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