The Darby Translation DBY
New International Version NIV
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
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Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah;
3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
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Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin;
4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
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Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
5 And all the souls that had come out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt.
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The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.
6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
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Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,
7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and swarmed and multiplied, and became exceeding strong; and the land was full of them.
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but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.
8 And there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
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Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.
9 And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more numerous and stronger than we.
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“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us.
10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass that, if war occur, they take side with our enemies and fight against us, and go up out of the land.
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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 And they set over them service-masters to oppress them with their burdens. And they built store-cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Rameses.
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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 afflicted them, the more they multiplied and spread; and they were distressed because of the children of Israel.
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But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites
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