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1Now these are the names of the sons of Israel , who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob ):
2Reuben , Simeon , Levi , and Judah ,
3Issachar , Zebulun , and Benjamin ,
4Dan and Naphtali , Gad and Asher.
5All the souls who came out of Jacob ’s body were seventy souls , and Joseph was in Egypt already.
6Joseph died , as did all his brothers, and all that generation .
7The children of Israel were fruitful , and increased abundantly , and multiplied , and grew exceedingly mighty ; and the land was filled with them .
8Now there arose a new king over Egypt , who didn’t know Joseph .
9He said to his people , “Behold , the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we .[#1:9 “Behold”, from “”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.]
10Come , let ’s deal wisely with them , lest they multiply , and it happen that when any war breaks out , they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us , and escape out of the land.”
11Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens . They built storage cities for Pharaoh : Pithom and Raamses .
12But the more they afflicted them , the more they multiplied and the more they spread out . They started to dread the children of Israel .
13The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve ,
14and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick , and in all kinds of service in the field , all their service , in which they ruthlessly made them serve .
15The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives , of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah , and the name of the other Puah ,
16and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women , and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son , then you shall kill him ; but if it is a daughter , then she shall live .”
17But the midwives feared God , and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them , but saved the baby boys alive .[#1:17 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “” (Elohim).]
18The king of Egypt called for the midwives , and said to them , “Why have you done this thing and saved the boys alive ?”
19The midwives said to Pharaoh , “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women ; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them .”
20God dealt well with the midwives , and the people multiplied , and grew very mighty .
21Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families .
22Pharaoh commanded all his people , saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river , and every daughter you shall save alive .”