EX-1:1  Now these [are] the names of the children of Israel,

which came into

Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.

EX-1:2  Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

EX-1:3  Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

EX-1:4  Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

EX-1:5  And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob

were seventy

souls: for Joseph was in Egypt [already].

EX-1:6  And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that

generation.

EX-1:7  And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased

abundantly,

and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was

filled with them.

EX-1:8  Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not

Joseph.

EX-1:9  And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the

children of

Israel [are] more and mightier than we:

EX-1:10  Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they

multiply, and it

come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join

also unto our

enemies, and fight against us, and [so] get them up out of the

land.

EX-1:11  Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict

them with

their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities,

Pithom and Raamses.

EX-1:12  But the more they afflicted them, the more they

multiplied and grew.

And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

EX-1:13  And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve

with rigour:

EX-1:14  And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in

mortar, and in

brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their

service, wherein

they made them serve, [was] with rigour.

EX-1:15  And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of

which the name

of the one [was] Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

EX-1:16  And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the

Hebrew women,

and see [them] upon the stools; if it [be] a son, then ye shall

kill him: but

if it [be] a daughter, then she shall live.

EX-1:17  But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of

Egypt

commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

EX-1:18  And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said

unto them,

Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children

alive?

EX-1:19  And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew

women [are]

not as the Egyptian women; for they [are] lively, and are

delivered ere the

midwives come in unto them.

EX-1:20  Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the

people

multiplied, and waxed very mighty.

EX-1:21  And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God,

that he made

them houses.

EX-1:22  And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son

that is born ye

shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save

alive.

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