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Exodus 1

The Message Bible MSG

1 These are the names of the Israelites who went to Egypt with Jacob, each bringing his family members:

2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

5 Seventy persons in all generated by Jacob's seed. Joseph was already in Egypt.

6 Then Joseph died, and all his brothers - that whole generation.

7 But the children of Israel kept on reproducing. They were very prolific - a population explosion in their own right - and the land was filled with them. "A New King . . . Who Didn't Know Joseph"

8 A new king came to power in Egypt who didn't know Joseph.

9 He spoke to his people in alarm, "There are way too many of these Israelites for us to handle.

10 We've got to do something: Let's devise a plan to contain them, lest if there's a war they should join our enemies, or just walk off and leave us."

11 So they organized them into work-gangs and put them to hard labor under gang-foremen. They built the storage cities Pithom and Rameses for Pharaoh.

12 But the harder the Egyptians worked them the more children the Israelites had - children everywhere! The Egyptians got so they couldn't stand the Israelites

13 and treated them worse than ever, crushing them with slave labor.

14 They made them miserable with hard labor - making bricks and mortar and back-breaking work in the fields. They piled on the work, crushing them under the cruel workload.

15 The king of Egypt had a talk with the two Hebrew midwives; one was named Shiphrah and the other Puah.

16 He said, "When you deliver the Hebrew women, look at the sex of the baby. If it's a boy, kill him; if it's a girl, let her live."

17 But the midwives had far too much respect for God and didn't do what the king of Egypt ordered; they let the boy babies live.

18 The king of Egypt called in the midwives. "Why didn't you obey my orders? You've let those babies live!"

19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, "The Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women; they're vigorous. Before the midwife can get there, they've already had the baby."

20 God was pleased with the midwives. The people continued to increase in number - a very strong people.

21 And because the midwives honored God, God gave them families of their own.

22 So Pharaoh issued a general order to all his people: "Every boy that is born, drown him in the Nile. But let the girls live."

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 haec sunt nomina filiorum Israhel qui ingressi sunt Aegyptum cum Iacob singuli cum domibus suis introierunt

2 Ruben Symeon Levi Iuda

3 Isachar Zabulon et Beniamin

4 Dan et Nepthalim Gad et Aser

5 erant igitur omnes animae eorum qui egressi sunt de femore Iacob septuaginta Ioseph autem in Aegypto erat

6 quo mortuo et universis fratribus eius omnique cognatione illa

7 filii Israhel creverunt et quasi germinantes multiplicati sunt ac roborati nimis impleverunt terram

8 surrexit interea rex novus super Aegyptum qui ignorabat Ioseph

9 et ait ad populum suum ecce populus filiorum Israhel multus et fortior nobis

10 venite sapienter opprimamus eum ne forte multiplicetur et si ingruerit contra nos bellum addatur inimicis nostris expugnatisque nobis egrediatur e terra

11 praeposuit itaque eis magistros operum ut adfligerent eos oneribus aedificaveruntque urbes tabernaculorum Pharaoni Phiton et Ramesses

12 quantoque opprimebant eos tanto magis multiplicabantur et crescebant

13 oderantque filios Israhel Aegyptii et adfligebant inludentes eis

14 atque ad amaritudinem perducebant vitam eorum operibus duris luti et lateris omnique famulatu quo in terrae operibus premebantur

15 dixit autem rex Aegypti obsetricibus Hebraeorum quarum una vocabatur Sephra altera Phua

16 praecipiens eis quando obsetricabitis Hebraeas et partus tempus advenerit si masculus fuerit interficite illum si femina reservate

17 timuerunt autem obsetrices Deum et non fecerunt iuxta praeceptum regis Aegypti sed conservabant mares

18 quibus ad se accersitis rex ait quidnam est hoc quod facere voluistis ut pueros servaretis

19 quae responderunt non sunt hebraeae sicut aegyptiae mulieres ipsae enim obsetricandi habent scientiam et priusquam veniamus ad eas pariunt

20 bene ergo fecit Deus obsetricibus et crevit populus confortatusque est nimis

21 et quia timuerant obsetrices Deum aedificavit illis domos

22 praecepit autem Pharao omni populo suo dicens quicquid masculini sexus natum fuerit in flumen proicite quicquid feminei reservate