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| 1:1 |
These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:
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| 1:2 |
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
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| 1:3 |
Is'sachar, Zeb'ulun, and Benjamin,
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| 1:4 |
Dan and Naph'tali, Gad and Asher.
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| 1:5 |
All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons;Joseph was already in Egypt.
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| 1:6 |
Then Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.
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| 1:7 |
But the descendants of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly;they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong;so that the land was filled with them.
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| 1:8 |
Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
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| 1:9 |
And he said to his people, 'Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us.
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| 1:10 |
Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war befall us, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.'
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| 1:11 |
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens;and they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Ra-am'ses.
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| 1:12 |
But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.
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| 1:13 |
So they made the people of Israel serve with rigor,
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| 1:14 |
and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field;in all their work they made them serve with rigor.
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| 1:15 |
Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiph'rah and the other Pu'ah,
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| 1:16 |
'When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him;but if it is a daughter, she shall live.'
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| 1:17 |
But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.
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| 1:18 |
So the king of Egypt called the midwives, and said to them, 'Why have you done this, and let the male children live?'
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| 1:19 |
The midwives said to Pharaoh, 'Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women;for they are vigorous and are delivered before the midwife comes to them.'
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| 1:20 |
So God dealt well with the midwives;and the people multiplied and grew very strong.
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| 1:21 |
And because the midwives feared God he gave them families.
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| 1:22 |
Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, 'Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.'
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