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Exodus

Chapter 1 of 40

¹These are the names of the children of Israel who went into the land of Egypt with Jacob their father. They came, each one with his household. ²Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, ³Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin, ⁴Dan, Naphtali, Gad and Asher. ⁵Joseph was already in the land of Egypt. All the people descended from Jacob numbered seventy-five. ⁶Then Joseph died, and all his brothers, and that whole generation. ⁷The children of Israel multiplied and filled the land. They became numerous and grew exceedingly strong, and the land was filled with them. ⁸Then another king rose over Egypt, one who did not know Joseph. ⁹He said to his people, "Look, the people of the children of Israel are great and numerous, and they are stronger than we are. ¹⁰Come, let us deal shrewdly with them. If they keep multiplying and war comes upon us, they will join our enemies, fight against us, and leave our land." ¹¹So he set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built fortified cities for Pharaoh: Pithom, Raamses, and On, which is the city of the sun. ¹²But the more they oppressed them, the more they multiplied and grew strong, and the Egyptians came to loathe the children of Israel. ¹³The Egyptians made the children of Israel serve them with harshness. ¹⁴They made their lives bitter with hard labor, with mortar and brick, and with every kind of work in the field. All the work they forced on them was harsh. ¹⁵The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives. The name of one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other was Puah. ¹⁶He said to them, "When you deliver the Hebrew women and they come to the time of birth, if it is a boy, kill him. But if it is a girl, let her live." ¹⁷But the midwives feared the LORD. They did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded them, and they let the boys live. ¹⁸So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, "Why have you done this and let the boys live?" ¹⁹The midwives said to Pharaoh, "The Hebrew women are not like the women of Egypt. They give birth before the midwife arrives." ²⁰So the LORD was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became very strong. ²¹Because the midwives feared the LORD, they established households for themselves. ²²Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every boy born to the Hebrews, throw into the river. But let every girl live."

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Exodus · Chapter 1 of 40

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