Read Exodus 1

World English Bible · 22 verses

1. ¹ Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ Come, 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.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ and 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. 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,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ and 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.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing and saved the boys alive?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ The 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.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
20. ²⁰ God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
21. ²¹ Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
22. ²² Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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