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Exodus 1

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1 When Jacobn went to Egypt, he took his sons, and each son took his own family with him. These are the names of the sons of Israel:
1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah,
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah;
3 Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin,
3 Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin;
4 Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
5 There was a total of seventy people who were descendantsd of Jacob. Jacob's son Joseph was already in Egypt.
5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.
6 Some time later, Joseph and his brothers died, along with all the people who had lived at that same time.
6 Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,
7 But the people of Israel had many children, and their number grew greatly. They became very strong, and the country of Egypt was filled with them.
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 began to rule Egypt, who did not know who Joseph was.
8 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.
9 This king said to his people, "Look! The people of Israel are too many and too strong for us to handle!
9 “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us.
10 If we don't make plans against them, the number of their people will grow even more. Then if there is a war, they might join our enemies and fight us and escape from the country!"
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 the Egyptians made life hard for the Israelites. They put slave masters over them, who forced the Israelites to build the cities Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king.
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 harder the Egyptians forced the Israelites to work, the more the Israelites grew in number and spread out. So the Egyptians became very afraid of them
12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites
13 and demanded even more of them.
13 and worked them ruthlessly.
14 They made their lives bitter. They forced the Israelites to work hard to make bricks and mortar and to do all kinds of work in the fields. The Egyptians were not merciful to them in all their pain- ful work.
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 Two Hebrew nurses, named Shiphrah and Puah, helped the Israelite women give birth to their babies. The king of Egypt said to the nurses,
15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,
16 "When you are helping the Hebrew women give birth to their babies, watch! If the baby is a girl, let her live, but if it is a boy, kill him!"
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 But the nurses feared God, so they did not do as the king told them; they let all the boy babies 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 sent for the nurses and said, "Why did you do this? Why did you 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 nurses said to him, "The Hebrew women are much stronger than the Egyptian women. They give birth to their babies before we can get there."
19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”
20 God was good to the nurses. And the Hebrew people continued to grow in number, so they became even stronger.
20 So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous.
21 Because the nurses feared God, he gave them families of their own.
21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.
22 So the king commanded all his people, "Every time a boy is born to the Hebrews, you must throw him into the Nile River, but let all the girl babies live."
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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