NLT 1 These are the names of the sons of Israel (that is, Jacob) who moved to Egypt with their father, each with his family: NIV 1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family: NLT 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, NIV 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah; NLT 3 Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, NIV 3 Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin; NLT 4 Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. NIV 4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher. NLT 5 In all, Jacob had seventy descendants in Egypt, including Joseph, who was already there. NIV 5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph was already in Egypt. NLT 6 In time, Joseph and all of his brothers died, ending that entire generation. NIV 6 Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, NLT 7 But their descendants, the Israelites, had many children and grandchildren. In fact, they multiplied so greatly that they became extremely powerful and filled the land. NIV 7 but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them. NLT 8 Eventually, a new king came to power in Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph or what he had done. NIV 8 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. NLT 9 He said to his people, “Look, the people of Israel now outnumber us and are stronger than we are. NIV 9 “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. NLT 10 We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more. If we don’t, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us. Then they will escape from the country. ” NIV 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.” NLT 11 So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor. They forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king. NIV 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. NLT 12 But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more the Israelites multiplied and spread, and the more alarmed the Egyptians became. NIV 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites NLT 13 So the Egyptians worked the people of Israel without mercy. NIV 13 and worked them ruthlessly. NLT 14 They made their lives bitter, forcing them to mix mortar and make bricks and do all the work in the fields. They were ruthless in all their demands. NIV 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. NLT 15 Then Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, gave this order to the Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah: NIV 15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, NLT 16 “When you help the Hebrew women as they give birth, watch as they deliver. If the baby is a boy, kill him; if it is a girl, let her live.” NIV 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.” NLT 17 But because the midwives feared God, they refused to obey the king’s orders. They allowed the boys to live, too. NIV 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. NLT 18 So the king of Egypt called for the midwives. “Why have you done this?” he demanded. “Why have you allowed the boys to live?” NIV 18 Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?” NLT 19 “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women,” the midwives replied. “They are more vigorous and have their babies so quickly that we cannot get there in time.” NIV 19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.” NLT 20 So God was good to the midwives, and the Israelites continued to multiply, growing more and more powerful. NIV 20 So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. NLT 21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own. NIV 21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own. NLT 22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Throw every newborn Hebrew boy into the Nile River. But you may let the girls live.” NIV 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.”
NIV 1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family: NIV 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah; NIV 3 Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin; NIV 4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher. NIV 5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph was already in Egypt. NIV 6 Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, NIV 7 but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them. NIV 8 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. NIV 9 “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. NIV 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.” NIV 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. NIV 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites NIV 13 and worked them ruthlessly. NIV 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. NIV 15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, NIV 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.” NIV 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. NIV 18 Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?” NIV 19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.” NIV 20 So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. NIV 21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own. NIV 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.”