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1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into
Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): 2 Reuben, Simeon,
Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar,
Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan and
Naphtali,
Gad and Asher. 5 All the souls who came out of the Jacob’s body were
seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already. 6 Joseph died, as did all
his brothers, and all that generation. 7 The children of Israel were
fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly
mighty; and the land was filled with them.
8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph. 9 He
said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more
and mightier than we. 10 Come, let us 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.”
11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their
burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses. 12 But
the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they
spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel. 13 The
Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve, 14 and they made
their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all
manner of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly
made them serve.
15 The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the
one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah, 16 and he said, “When
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