اَلْخُرُوجُ 1

١ 1 وَهَذِهِ أَسْمَاءُ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ ٱلَّذِينَ جَاءُوا إِلَى مِصْرَ. مَعَ يَعْقُوبَ جَاءَ كُلُّ إِنْسَانٍ وَبَيْتُهُ:

These were the names of the sons of Israel (Jacob) who came with him to Egypt along with their families:

٢ 2 رَأُوبَيْنُ وَشِمْعُونُ وَلَاوِي وَيَهُوذَا

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

٣ 3 وَيَسَّاكَرُ وَزَبُولُونُ وَبَنْيَامِينُ

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

٤ 4 وَدَانُ وَنَفْتَالِي وَجَادُ وَأَشِيرُ.

Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

٥ 5 وَكَانَتْ جَمِيعُ نُفُوسِ ٱلْخَارِجِينَ مِنْ صُلْبِ يَعْقُوبَ سَبْعِينَ نَفْسًا. وَلَكِنْ يُوسُفُ كَانَ فِي مِصْرَ.

Jacob had 70 descendants there, including Joseph who was already in Egypt.

٦ 6 وَمَاتَ يُوسُفُ وَكُلُّ إِخْوَتِهِ وَجَمِيعُ ذَلِكَ ٱلْجِيلِ.

Eventually Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died.

٧ 7 وَأَمَّا بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ فَأَثْمَرُوا وَتَوَالَدُوا وَنَمَوْا وَكَثُرُوا كَثِيرًا جِدًّا، وَٱمْتَلَأَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ مِنْهُمْ.

However, the Israelites had many children and their numbers increased rapidly. In fact there were so many of them that they became very powerful—the country was full of them.

٨ 8 ثُمَّ قَامَ مَلِكٌ جَدِيدٌ عَلَى مِصْرَ لَمْ يَكُنْ يَعْرِفُ يُوسُفَ.

Then a new king came to power who didn't know anything about Joseph.

٩ 9 فَقَالَ لِشَعْبِهِ: «هُوَذَا بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ شَعْبٌ أَكْثَرُ وَأَعْظَمُ مِنَّا.

He conferred with his fellow Egyptians and said, “Look at these Israelites—there are more than them than us, and they're more powerful than us.

١٠ 10 هَلُمَّ نَحْتَالُ لَهُمْ لِئَلَّا يَنْمُوا، فَيَكُونَ إِذَا حَدَثَتْ حَرْبٌ أَنَّهُمْ يَنْضَمُّونَ إِلَى أَعْدَائِنَا وَيُحَارِبُونَنَا وَيَصْعَدُونَ مِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ».

We've got to make plan to deal with them before they become so many that if there's a war they'll side with our enemies and fight us, and flee the country.”

١١ 11 فَجَعَلُوا عَلَيْهِمْ رُؤَسَاءَ تَسْخِيرٍ لِكَيْ يُذِلُّوهُمْ بِأَثْقَالِهِمْ، فَبَنَوْا لِفِرْعَوْنَ مَدِينَتَيْ مَخَازِنَ: فِيثُومَ، وَرَعَمْسِيسَ.

So the Egyptians made them do forced labor and put taskmasters in charge of them. They used them to build the storage towns of Pithom and Rameses.

١٢ 12 وَلَكِنْ بِحَسْبِمَا أَذَلُّوهُمْ هَكَذَا نَمَوْا وَٱمْتَدُّوا. فَٱخْتَشَوْا مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.

But the more the Israelites were mistreated, the more they grew in numbers and spread out—and the more the Egyptians detested them.

١٣ 13 فَٱسْتَعْبَدَ ٱلْمِصْرِيُّونَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ بِعُنْفٍ،

The Egyptians worked the Israelites brutally,

١٤ 14 وَمَرَّرُوا حَيَاتَهُمْ بِعُبُودِيَّةٍ قَاسِيَةٍ فِي ٱلطِّينِ وَٱللِّبْنِ وَفِي كُلِّ عَمَلٍ فِي ٱلْحَقْلِ. كُلِّ عَمَلِهِمِ ٱلَّذِي عَمِلُوهُ بِوَاسِطَتِهِمْ عُنْفًا.

making their lives a misery. They made them do hard labor, building with mortar and brick, and all kind of heavy work in the fields. In all of this hard labor they treated them brutally.

١٥ 15 وَكَلَّمَ مَلِكُ مِصْرَ قَابِلَتَيِ ٱلْعِبْرَانِيَّاتِ ٱللَّتَيْنِ ٱسْمُ إِحْدَاهُمَا شِفْرَةُ وَٱسْمُ ٱلْأُخْرَى فُوعَةُ،

Then the king gave orders to the Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah.

١٦ 16 وَقَالَ: «حِينَمَا تُوَلِّدَانِ ٱلْعِبْرَانِيَّاتِ وَتَنْظُرَانِهِنَّ عَلَى ٱلْكَرَاسِيِّ، إِنْ كَانَ ٱبْنًا فَٱقْتُلَاهُ، وَإِنْ كَانَ بِنْتًا فَتَحْيَا».

He told them, “When you assist the Hebrew women during childbirth, if you see it's a boy, kill him; but if it's a girl, let her live.”

١٧ 17 وَلَكِنَّ ٱلْقَابِلَتَيْنِ خَافَتَا ٱللهَ وَلَمْ تَفْعَلَا كَمَا كَلَّمَهُمَا مَلِكُ مِصْرَ، بَلِ ٱسْتَحْيَتَا ٱلْأَوْلَادَ.

But because the midwives revered God, they didn't do what the king of Egypt had ordered. They let the boys live as well.

١٨ 18 فَدَعَا مَلِكُ مِصْرَ ٱلْقَابِلَتَيْنِ وَقَالَ لَهُمَا: «لِمَاذَا فَعَلْتُمَا هَذَا ٱلْأَمْرَ وَٱسْتَحْيَيْتُمَا ٱلْأَوْلَادَ؟»

The king of Egypt called the midwives in and demanded to know, “Why have you done this— letting the male children live?”

١٩ 19 فَقَالَتِ ٱلْقَابِلَتَانِ لِفِرْعَوْنَ: «إِنَّ ٱلنِّسَاءَ ٱلْعِبْرَانِيَّاتِ لَسْنَ كَٱلْمِصْرِيَّاتِ، فَإِنَّهُنَّ قَوِيَّاتٌ يَلِدْنَ قَبْلَ أَنْ تَأْتِيَهُنَّ ٱلْقَابِلَةُ».

“Hebrew women aren't like Egyptian women,” the midwives told Pharaoh. “They give birth more easily—they have them before we midwives arrive.”

٢٠ 20 فَأَحْسَنَ ٱللهُ إِلَى ٱلْقَابِلَتَيْنِ، وَنَمَا ٱلشَّعْبُ وَكَثُرَ جِدًّا.

God treated the midwives well, and the people increased in number so there were even more of them.

٢١ 21 وَكَانَ إِذْ خَافَتِ ٱلْقَابِلَتَانِ ٱللهَ أَنَّهُ صَنَعَ لَهُمَا بُيُوتًا.

Because the midwives revered God, he gave them families of their own.

٢٢ 22 ثُمَّ أَمَرَ فِرْعَوْنُ جَمِيعَ شَعْبِهِ قَائِلًا: «كُلُّ ٱبْنٍ يُولَدُ تَطْرَحُونَهُ فِي ٱلنَّهْرِ، لَكِنَّ كُلَّ بِنْتٍ تَسْتَحْيُونَهَا».

Then Pharaoh issued this order to all his people: “Throw every Hebrew boy that's born into the Nile, but let every girl live.”