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These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family: |
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Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah; |
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Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin; |
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Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher. |
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The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph was already in Egypt. |
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Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, |
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but the Israelites were fruitful and multiplied greatly and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them. |
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Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt. |
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"Look," he said to his people, "the Israelites have become much too numerous for us. |
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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." |
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So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labour, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. |
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But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites |
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and worked them ruthlessly. |
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They made their lives bitter with hard labour in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their hard labour the Egyptians used them ruthlessly. |
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The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, |
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"When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth and observe them on the delivery stool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live." |
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The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. |
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Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, "Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?" |
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The midwives answered Pharaoh, "Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive." |
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So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. |
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And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own. |
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Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: "Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live." |
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