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1 These the names of the sons of Israel coming into Egypt with Jacob; a man and his house came. These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household: These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah;
3 Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin, Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin;
4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
5 And these will be all the souls that came out of the thigh of Jacob, seventy souls: and Joseph was in Egypt. All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt. The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.
6 And Joseph will die, and all his brethren, and all that generation. Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation. Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,
7 And the sons of Israel were fruitful, and they will multiply abundantly, and they will increase, and will become strong with might exceedingly; and the land will be filled with them. But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them. but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.
8 And a new king will arise over Egypt, who will not know Joseph. Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.
9 And he will say to his people, Behold, the people of the sons of Israel, many, being strong above us. And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us. “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us.
10 Come, we will be wise with them, lest they shall multiply, and it was when war shall happen, and also being added to our armies and fighting against us, and they went up from the land. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.” 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.”
11 And they will set over them leaders of the tributes in order to afflict them in their burdens. And they will build cities of stores for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses. Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses. So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
12 And as they will afflict them, so they will multiply and will increase. And they will feel disgust from the face of the sons of Israel. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites
13 And the Egyptians will make the sons of Israel serve by oppression. So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves and worked them ruthlessly.
14 And they will embitter their lives by hard work in clay, and in bricks, and in all work in the field: all their work in which they made them serve by oppression. and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves. 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.
15 And the king of Egypt will say to the midwives of the Hebrews, of whom the name of the one Shiprah, and the name of the second, Puah; Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,
16 And he will say, In the delivering the Hebrew women, and seeing upon the stools, if it is a son, ye shall kill him; and if it is a daughter, preserve alive. “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.” “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.”
17 And the midwives will fear God, and they did not according to what the king of Egypt said to them, and they will preserve alive the boys. But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live. The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live.
18 And the king of Egypt will call to the midwives, and will say to them, Wherefore did ye this word, and ye will preserve alive the boys? So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and let the male children live?” Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”
19 And the midwives will say to Pharaoh, That the Hebrewesses are not as the Egyptian women, for they giving life before the midwives shall come in to them, and they will bring forth. 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.” The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”
20 And God will do well to the midwives, and the people will multiply and be greatly strong. So God dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied and grew very strong. So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous.
21 And it will be because the midwives will fear God, and he will make houses for them. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.
22 And Pharaoh will command to all the people, saying, Every son being brought forth ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall preserve alive. Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.” 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.”
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