خرُوج 1

١ 1 وَهَذِهِ هِيَ أَسْمَاءُ أَبْنَاءِ إِسْرَائِيلَ الَّذِينَ قَدِمُوا مَعَ يَعْقُوبَ إِلَى مِصْرَ، كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ مَعَ أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ.

These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:

٢ 2 رَأُوبَيْنُ، وَشِمْعُونُ، وَلاوِي وَيَهُوذَا،

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

٣ 3 وَيَسَّاكَرُ وَزَبُولُونُ وَبَنْيَامِينُ،

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

٤ 4 وَدَانٌ وَنَفْتَالِي وَجَادٌ وَأَشِيرُ.

Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

٥ 5 وَكَانَتْ جُمْلَةُ النُّفُوسِ الْمَوْلُودِينَ مِنْ صُلْبِ يَعْقُوبَ سَبْعِينَ نَفْساً. أَمَّا يُوسُفُ فَقَدْ كَانَ فِي مِصْرَ.

All the people who were directly descended from Jacob were seventy-five, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

٦ 6 ثُمَّ مَاتَ يُوسُفُ وَإخْوَتُهُ جَمِيعاً وَكَذَلِكَ سَائِرُ ذَلِكَ الْجِيلِ.

Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.

٧ 7 وَنَمَا بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَتَوَالَدُوا وَتَكَاثَرُوا وَعَظُمُوا جِدّاً حَتَّى اكْتَظَّتْ بِهِمِ الأَرْضُ.

The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

٨ 8 وَمَا لَبِثَ أَنْ قَامَ مَلِكٌ جَدِيدٌ عَلَى مِصْرَ لَمْ يَكُنْ يَعْرِفُ يُوسُفَ.

Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

٩ 9 فَقَالَ لِشَعْبِهِ: «هَا بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ أَكْثَرُ مِنَّا وَأَعْظَمُ قُوَّةً.

He said to his people, "Look, the people of the sons of Israel are more and mightier than we.

١٠ 10 فَلْنَتَآمَرْ عَلَيْهِمْ لِكَيْلا يَتَكَاثَرُوا وَيَنْضَمُّوا إِلَى أَعْدَائِنَا إِذَا نَشَبَ قِتَالٌ وَيُحَارِبُونَا ثُمَّ يَخْرُجُوا مِنَ الأَرْضِ».

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."

١١ 11 فَعَهِدُوا بِهِمْ إِلَى مُشْرِفِينَ عُتَاةٍ لِيُسَخِّرُوهُمْ بِالأَعْمَالِ الشَّاقَةِ. فَبَنَوْا مَدِينَتَيْ فِيثُومَ وَرَعَمْسِيسَ لِتَكُونَا مَخَازِنَ لِفِرْعَوْنَ.

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Rameses.

١٢ 12 وَلَكِنْ كُلَّمَا زَادُوا مِنْ إذْلالِهِمْ، ازْدَادَ تَكَاثُرُهُمْ وَنُمُوُّهُمْ، فَتَخَوَّفُوا مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. And they were in dread of the children of Israel.

١٣ 13 فَتَزَايَدَ عُنْفُ اسْتِعْبَادِ الْمِصْرِيِّينَ لِبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.

And the Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel labor,

١٤ 14 وَأَتْعَسُوا حَيَاتَهُمْ بالأَعْمَالِ الشَّاقَةِ فِي الطِّينِ وَاللِّبْنِ كَادِحِينَ فِي الْحُقُولِ. وسَخَّرَهُمُ الْمِصْرِيُّونَ بِعُنْفٍ فِي كُلِّ أَعْمَالِهِمِ الشَّاقَةِ.

and they made their lives bitter with hard labor, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of labor in the field, all their labors which they ruthlessly made them do.

١٥ 15 ثُمَّ قَالَ مَلِكُ مِصْرَ لِلْقَابِلَتَيْنِ الْعِبْرَانِيَّتَيْنِ الْمَدْعُوَّتَيْنِ شِفْرَةَ وَفُوعَةَ:

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,

١٦ 16 «عِنْدَمَا تُشْرِفَانِ عَلَى تَوْلِيدِ النِّسَاءِ الْعِبْرَانِيَّاتِ رَاقِبَاهُنَّ عَلَى كُرْسِيِّ الْوِلادَةِ، فَإنْ كَانَ الْمَوْلُودُ صَبِيًّا فَاقْتُلاهُ، وَإِنْ كَانَ بِنْتاً فاتْرُكَاهَا تَحْيَا».

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."

١٧ 17 غَيْرَ أَنَّ الْقَابِلَتَيْنِ كَانَتَا تَخَافَانِ اللهَ فَلَمْ تُنَفِّذَا أَمْرَ الْمَلِكِ فاسْتَحْيَتَا الأَطْفَالَ الذُّكُورَ.

But the midwives feared God, and did not do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

١٨ 18 فَاسْتَدْعَى مَلِكُ مِصْرَ الْقَابِلَتَيْنِ وَسَأَلَهُمَا: «لِمَاذَا فَعَلْتُمَا هَذَا الأَمْرَ واسْتَحْيَيْتُمَا الأَطْفَالَ الذُّكُورَ؟»

The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?"

١٩ 19 فَأَجَابَتَاهُ: «إنَّ النِّسَاءَ الْعِبْرَانِيَّاتِ لَسْنَ كَالْمِصْرِيَّاتِ، فَإِنَّهُنَّ قَوِيَّاتٌ يَلِدْنَ قَبْلَ وُصُولِ الْقَابِلَةِ إِلَيْهِنَّ».

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."

٢٠ 20 وَتَكَاثَرَ الشَّعْبُ وَعَظُمَ جِدّاً.

God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

٢١ 21 وَإِذْ خَافَتِ الْقَابِلَتَانِ اللهَ أَثَابَهُمَا بِنَسْلٍ.

It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.

٢٢ 22 ثُمَّ أَصْدَرَ فِرْعَوْنُ أَمْرَهُ لِجَمِيعِ شَعْبِهِ قَائِلاً: «اطْرَحُوا كُلَّ ابْنٍ (عِبْرَانِيٍّ) يُوْلَدُ فِي النَّهْرِ، أَمَّا الْبَنَاتُ فَاسْتَحْيُوهُنَّ».

Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "You are to cast every son who is born to the Hebrews into the river, but every daughter you are to keep alive."