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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7but the Israelites were fruitful and increased rapidly; they multiplied and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Then a new king, who did not know Joseph, came to power in Egypt. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.” |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13They worked the Israelites ruthlessly |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16“When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.” |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had instructed; they let the boys live. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?” |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The midwives answered Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife arrives.” |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became even more numerous. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21And because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.” |
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