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1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt; every man and his family came with Jacob.
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Now these are the Shemot Bnei Yisroel, which came into Mitzrayim; every ish and his bais came with Ya’akov:
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
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Reuven, Simeon, Levi, and Yehudah,
3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
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Yissakhar, Zevulun, and Binyamin,
4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
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Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
5 All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph had come to Egypt before them.
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And all the nefesh that came out of the loins of Ya’akov were seventy nefesh; for Yosef was in Mitzrayim already.
6 Then Joseph came to his end, and all his brothers, and all that generation.
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And Yosef died, and all his achim, and all that generation.
7 And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.
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And the Bnei Yisroel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and became exceeding strong; and the land was filled with them.
8 Now a new king came to power in Egypt, who had no knowledge of Joseph.
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Now there arose a melech chadash over Mitzrayim, which had no da’as of Yosef.
9 And he said to his people, See, the people of Israel are greater in number and in power than we are:
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And he said unto his people, Hinei, the Am Bnei Yisroel are more and stronger than we.
10 Let us take care for fear that their numbers may become even greater, and if there is a war, they may be joined with those who are against us, and make an attack on us, and go up out of the land.
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Come, let us outsmart them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any milchamah, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
11 So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.
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Therefore they did set over them sarei missim (taskmasters) to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pitom and Raamses.
12 But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians.
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But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and spread out. And they were in dread because of the Bnei Yisroel.
13 And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:
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And the Egyptians made the Bnei Yisroel to serve with rigor;
14 And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.
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And they made their lives bitter with avodah kashah (hard bondage), in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of avodah in the sadeh; all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigor.
15 And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew women who gave help at the time of childbirth (the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah),
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And Melech Mitzrayim spoke to the meyalledot HaIvriyyot (Hebrew midwives), of which the shem of the one was Shiphrah, and of the other Puah;
16 When you are looking after the Hebrew women in childbirth, if it is a son you are to put him to death; but if it is a daughter, she may go on living.
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And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to HaIvriyyot (the Hebrew women) and see them upon the delivery stool; if it be a ben, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a bat, then she shall live.
17 But the women had the fear of God, and did not do as the king of Egypt said, but let the male children go on living.
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But the meyalledot feared HaElohim, and did not as Melech Mitzrayim commanded them, but saved the yeladim alive.
18 And the king of Egypt sent for the women, and said to them, Why have you done this, and let the male children go on living?
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So Melech Mitzrayim called for the meyalledot, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the yeladim alive?
19 And they said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are strong, and the birth takes place before we come to them.
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And the meyalledot said unto Pharaoh, Because HaIvriyyot are not as the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and are delivered before the meyalledot come in unto them.
20 And the blessing of God was on these women: and the people were increased in number and became very strong.
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Therefore Elohim dealt well with the meyalledot; and the people multiplied, and grew very strong.
21 And because the women who took care of the Hebrew mothers had the fear of God, he gave them families.
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And it came to pass, because the meyalledot feared HaElohim, that He established them batim.
22 And Pharaoh gave orders to all his people, saying, Every son who comes to birth is to be put into the river, but every daughter may go on living.
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And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every ben that is born ye shall cast into the Nile, and every bat ye shall save alive.
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