出埃及記 1
1 以色列的兒子們，各帶了家眷，同雅各伯來到埃及；他們的名字記載如下：
Now these are the names of the children of Israel, that came into Egypt with Jacob, every man and his household they came.
2 勒烏本、西默盎、勒末和猶大，
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
3 依撒加爾，則步隆和本雅明丹，
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
4 和納裴塔里，加得和阿協爾。
Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
5 他們全是雅各伯所生的，一共七十人；若瑟那時已經在埃及。
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; together with Joseph who was already in Egypt.
6 若瑟和他的眾兄弟，以及這一代的人死了以後，
And Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.
7 以色列的子孫生育繁殖，數目增多，極其強盛，佈滿了那地。受壓迫
And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
8 有位不認識若瑟的新王興起，統治了埃及。
Now there rose up a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.
9 他對自己的人民說：「看以色列子民，比我們又多又強。
And he said unto his people: Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more numerous and mightier than we.
10 來，我們要用智謀對付他們，免得他們繁盛起來，一遇戰爭，就去與我們的敵人聯合，攻擊我們，然後離開此地。」
Come, let us deal wisely with them lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there happen to be a war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and depart out of the land.
11 於是派定督工管制他們，以苦役壓迫他們，叫他們給法朗建築丕通和辣默色斯兩做貯貨城。
And they set over taskmasters, to afflict them with their burdensome labors; and they built treasure cities, for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.
12 但是越壓迫他們，他們越增多，也越繁殖，以至埃及人都怕以色列子民。
But in the measure that they afflicted them, so they multiplied and so they spread out; and they felt abhorrence because of the children of Israel.
13 於是埃及人更嚴厲地強迫以色列子民做苦工，
And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to labor with rigor:
14 強迫他們作和泥做磚的苦工，田間的一切勞工，以及種種苦工，使他們的生活十分痛苦。殘害男嬰
And they made their lives bitter with hard labor, in mortar, and in bricks, and in all manner of labor in the field; in all their service, wherein they made them labor with rigor.
15 埃及王又吩咐為希伯來女人接生的收生婆，一個名叫史斐辣，一個名叫普亞的說
And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah;
16 「你們為希伯來女人接生時，要看著她們臨盆! 若是男孩，就殺死；若是女孩，就讓她活著。」
And he said: When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, ye shall look upon the birth; if it be a son, then shall ye kill him; but if it be a daughter, then may she live.
17 但是收生婆敬畏天主，沒有照埃及王的吩咐去作，保留了男孩的性命。
But the midwives feared God, and they did not as the king of Egypt had commanded them, but saved the men-children alive.
18 埃及王將收生婆召來，問她們說：「你們為什麼這樣做，竟叫男孩活著呢﹖」
And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and he said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive?
19 ‧收收婆回答法朗說：「希伯來女人和埃及女人不同，她們富有生機，收生婆還沒有來，她們已生產了。」
And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively; ere the midwife cometh in unto them they are delivered.
20 天主遂恩待了收生婆。以色列的子民更加增多起來，更加強盛。
And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
21 因為收生婆敬畏天主，天主就使她們家門興旺。
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
22 法朗於是訓令他的全體人民說：「凡希伯來人所生的男孩，你們應把他丟在尼羅河裏；凡是女孩，留她活著! 」
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
