ASV_Strong : Exodus 1
1. Now these are the names[H8034] of the sons[H1121] of Israel[H3478], who came[H935] into Egypt[H4714] (every man[H376] and his household[H1004] came[H935] with Jacob[H3290]):
2. Reuben[H7205], Simeon[H8095], Levi[H3878], and Judah[H3063],
3. Issachar[H3485], Zebulun[H2074], and Benjamin[H1144],
4. Dan[H1835] and Naphtali[H5321], Gad[H1410] and Asher[H836].
5. And all the souls[H5315] that came out[H3318] of the loins[H3409] of Jacob[H3290] were seventy[H7657] souls[H5315]: and Joseph[H3130] was in Egypt already[H4714].
6. And Joseph[H3130] died[H4191], and all his brethren[H251], and all that generation[H1755].
7. And the children[H1121] of Israel[H3478] were fruitful[H6509], and increased abundantly[H8317], and multiplied[H7235], and waxed exceeding[H3966] mighty[H6105]; and the land[H776] was filled with them[H4390].
8. Now there arose[H6965] a new[H2319] king[H4428] over Egypt[H4714], who knew[H3045] not Joseph[H3130].
9. And he said[H559] unto his people[H5971], Behold[H5971], the people of the children[H1121] of Israel[H3478] are more[H7227] and mightier than we[H6099]:
10. come[H3051], let us deal wisely[H2449] with them[H7235], lest they multiply, and it come to pass[H7122], that, when there falleth out any war[H4421], they[H1931] also join[H3254] themselves unto our enemies[H8130], and fight[H3898] against us[H5927], and get them up out of the land[H776].
11. Therefore they did set[H7760] over them taskmasters[H4522] to afflict[H6031] them with their burdens[H5450]. And they built[H1129] for Pharaoh[H6547] store-cities[H4543], Pithom[H6619] and Raamses[H7486].
12. But the more they afflicted[H6031] them[H3651], the more they multiplied[H7235] and the more they spread abroad[H6555]. And they were grieved[H6973] because[H6440] of the children[H1121] of Israel[H3478].
13. And the Egyptians[H4714] made[H5647] the children[H1121] of Israel[H3478] to serve[H5647] with rigor[H6531]:
14. and they made[H4843] their lives[H2416] bitter[H4843] with hard[H7186] service[H5656], in mortar[H2563] and in brick[H3843], and in all manner of service[H5656] in the field[H7704], all their service[H5656], wherein they made them serve[H5647] with rigor[H6531].
15. And the king[H4428] of Egypt[H4714] spake[H559] to the Hebrew[H5680] midwives[H3205], of whom the name[H8034] of the one[H259] was Shiphrah[H8236], and the name[H8034] of the other[H8145] Puah[H6326]:
16. and he said[H559], When ye do the office of a midwife[H3205] to the Hebrew women[H5680], and see[H7200] them upon the birth-stool[H70]; if it be a son[H1121], then ye shall kill[H4191] him[H1323]; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live[H2425].
17. But the midwives[H3205] feared[H3372] God[H430], and did[H6213] not as the king[H4428] of Egypt[H4714] commanded[H1696] them[H2421], but saved the men-children[H3206] alive[H2421].
18. And the king[H4428] of Egypt[H4714] called[H7121] for the midwives[H3205], and said[H559] unto them[H4069], Why have ye done[H6213] this thing[H1697], and have saved[H2421] the men-children[H3206] alive[H2421]?
19. And the midwives[H3205] said[H559] unto Pharaoh[H6547], Because the Hebrew[H5680] women[H802] are not as the Egyptian women[H4713]; for they are lively[H2422], and are delivered[H3205] ere[H2962] the midwife[H3205] come unto them[H935].
20. And God[H430] dealt well[H3190] with the midwives[H3205]: and the people[H5971] multiplied[H7235], and waxed very[H3966] mighty[H6105].
21. And it came to pass[H3205], because the midwives feared[H3372] God[H430], that he made[H6213] them households[H1004].
22. And Pharaoh[H6547] charged[H6680] all his people[H5971], saying[H559], Every son[H1121] that is born[H3209] ye shall cast[H7993] into the river[H2975], and every daughter[H1323] ye shall save alive[H2421].
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