1Exodus 1

1These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Egypt with Jacob: they went in every man with his household:Select Exodus 1:1

2Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,Select Exodus 1:2

3Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin,Select Exodus 1:3

4Dan, and Nephthali, Gad and Aser.Select Exodus 1:4

5And all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.Select Exodus 1:5

6After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,Select Exodus 1:6

7The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.Select Exodus 1:7

8In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph:Select Exodus 1:8

9And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we.Select Exodus 1:9

10Come let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome us, depart out of the land.Select Exodus 1:10

11Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens: and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom, and Ramesses.Select Exodus 1:11

12But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied and increased.Select Exodus 1:12

13And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them:Select Exodus 1:13

14And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.Select Exodus 1:14

15And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,Select Exodus 1:15

16Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive.Select Exodus 1:16

17But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.Select Exodus 1:17

18And the king called for them and said: What is it that you meant to do, that you would save the men children?Select Exodus 1:18

19They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves are skilful in the office of a midwife; and they are delivered before we come to them.Select Exodus 1:19

20Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.Select Exodus 1:20

21And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.Select Exodus 1:21

22Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of the female, ye shall save alive.Select Exodus 1:22