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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.
02 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
03 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
04 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
05 And all the souls that came out of the
loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was
in Egypt already.
06 And Joseph died, and all his brethren,
and all that generation.
07 And the children of Israel were
fruitful, and increased abundantly, and
multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the
land was filled with them.
08 Now there arose up a new king over
Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
09 And he said unto his people, Behold, the
people of the children of Israel are more and
mightier than we:
10 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 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 afflicted them, the
more they multiplied and grew. And they were
grieved because of the children of Israel.
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13 And the Egyptians made the children of
Israel to serve with rigour:
14 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 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 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, and did not
as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved
the men children alive.
18 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 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 Therefore God dealt well with the
midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed
very mighty.
21 And it came to pass, because the
midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
22 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.
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