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1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:
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Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
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 The total number of people born to Jacob was seventy. Joseph was already in Egypt.
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And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
6 Then Joseph died, and all his brothers, and that whole generation.
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And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
7 But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.
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And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
8 Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
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Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
9 He said to his people, "Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we.
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And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
10 Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land."
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Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh.
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Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.
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But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
13 The Egyptians became ruthless in imposing tasks on the Israelites,
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And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
14 and made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and brick and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.
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And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,
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And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
16 "When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live."
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And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
17 But the midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but they let the boys live.
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But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
18 So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, "Why have you done this, and allowed the boys to live?"
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And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them."
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And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
20 So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became very strong.
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Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
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And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every boy that is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the Nile, but you shall let every girl live."
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And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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