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These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household: |
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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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All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt. |
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Then Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation. |
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But the descendants of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong; so that the land was filled with them. |
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Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. |
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And he said to his people, "Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us. |
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Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war befall us, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land." |
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Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens; and they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses. |
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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. |
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So they made the people of Israel serve with rigor, |
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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 made them serve with rigor. |
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Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, |
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"When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, she shall live." |
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But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live. |
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So the king of Egypt called the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this, and let the male children live?" |
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The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and are delivered before the midwife comes to them." |
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So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and grew very strong. |
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And because the midwives feared God he gave them families. |
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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." |
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