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1 These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Egypt with Jacob: they went in every man with his household:
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These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:
2 Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,
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Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
3 Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin,
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Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
4 Dan, and Nephthali, Gad and Aser.
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Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
5 And all the souls that came out of Jacob’s thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.
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The total number of people born to Jacob was seventy. Joseph was already in Egypt.
6 After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,
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Then Joseph died, and all his brothers, and that whole generation.
7 The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.
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But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.
8 In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph:
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Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
9 And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we.
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He said to his people, "Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we.
10 Come let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome us, depart out of the land.
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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."
11 Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens: and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom, and Ramesses.
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Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh.
12 But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied and increased.
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But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.
13 And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them:
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The Egyptians became ruthless in imposing tasks on the Israelites,
14 And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.
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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.
15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,
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The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,
16 Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive.
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"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."
17 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.
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But the midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but they let the boys live.
18 And the king called for them and said: What is it that you meant to do, that you would save the men children?
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So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, "Why have you done this, and allowed the boys to live?"
19 They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves are skilful in the office of a midwife; and they are delivered before we come to them.
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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."
20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.
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So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became very strong.
21 And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.
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And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
22 Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of the female, ye shall save alive.
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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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