Exodus 1
1 And these [are] the names of the sons of Israel who are coming into Egypt; each man and his household have come with Jacob:
Haec sunt nomina filiorum Israel qui ingressi sunt in Aegyptum cum Iacob: singuli cum domibus suis introierunt:
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Iudas,
3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
Issachar, Zabulon et Beniamin,
4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
Dan, et Nephthali, Gad, et Aser.
5 And all the persons coming out of the thigh of Jacob are seventy persons; as for Joseph, he was in Egypt.
Erant igitur omnes animae eorum qui egressi sunt de femore Iacob, septuaginta: Ioseph autem in Aegypto erat.
6 And Joseph dies, and all his brothers, and all that generation;
Quo mortuo, et universis fratribus eius, omnique cognatione sua,
7 and the sons of Israel have been fruitful, and they teem, and multiply, and are very, very mighty, and the land is filled with them.
filii Israel creverunt, et quasi germinantes multiplicati sunt: ac roborati nimis, impleverunt terram.
8 And there rises a new king over Egypt, who has not known Joseph,
Surrexit interea rex novus super Aegyptum, qui ignorabat Ioseph:
9 and he says to his people, “Behold, the people of the sons of Israel [are] more numerous and mighty than we.
et ait ad populum suum: Ecce, populus filiorum Israel multus, et fortior nobis est.
10 Give help! Let us act wisely concerning it, lest it multiply, and it has come to pass, when war happens, that it has been joined, even it, to those hating us, and has fought against us, and has gone up out of the land.”
Venite, sapienter opprimamus eum, ne forte multiplicetur: et si ingruerit contra nos bellum, addatur inimicis nostris, expugnatisque nobis egrediatur de terra.
11 And they set princes of tribute over it, so as to afflict it with their burdens, and it builds the store-cities of Pithom and Rameses for Pharaoh;
Praeposuit itaque eis magistros operum, ut affligerent eos oneribus: aedificaveruntque urbes tabernaculorum Pharaoni, Phithom, et Ramesses.
12 and as they afflict it, so it multiplies, and so it breaks forth, and they are distressed because of the sons of Israel;
Quantoque opprimebant eos, tanto magis multiplicabantur, et crescebant:
13 and the Egyptians cause the sons of Israel to serve with rigor,
oderantque filios Israel Aegyptii, et affligebant illudentes eis:
14 and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every [kind] of service in the field; all their service in which they have served [is] with rigor.
atque ad amaritudinem perducebant vitam eorum operibus duris luti, et lateris, omnique famulatu, quo in terrae operibus premebantur.
15 And the king of Egypt speaks to the midwives, the Hebrewesses (of whom the name of the first [is] Shiphrah, and the name of the second Puah),
Dixit autem Rex Aegypti obstetricibus Hebraeorum: quarum una vocabatur Sephora, altera Phua,
16 and says, “When you cause the Hebrew women to bear, and have looked on the children, if it [is] a son, then you have put him to death; and if it [is] a daughter, then she has lived.”
praecipiens eis: Quando obstetricabitis Hebraeas, et partus tempus advenerit: si masculus fuerit, interficite eum: si femina, reservate.
17 And the midwives fear God, and have not done as the king of Egypt has spoken to them, and they keep the boys alive;
Timuerunt autem obstetrices Deum, et non fecerunt iuxta praeceptum regis Aegypti, sed conservabant mares.
18 and the king of Egypt calls for the midwives and says to them, “Why have you done this thing, and keep the boys alive?”
Quibus accersitis ad se, rex ait: Quidnam est hoc quod facere voluistis, ut pueros servaretis?
19 And the midwives say to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women [are] not as the Egyptian women, for they [are] lively; before the midwife comes to them—they have borne!”
Quae responderunt: Non sunt Hebreae sicut Aegyptiae mulieres: ipsae enim obstetricandi habent scientiam, et priusquam veniamus ad eas, pariunt.
20 And God does good to the midwives, and the people multiply, and are very mighty;
Bene ergo fecit Deus obstetricibus: et crevit populus, confortatusque est nimis.
21 and it comes to pass, because the midwives have feared God, that He makes households for them;
Et quia timuerunt obstetrices Deum, aedificavit eis domos.
22 and Pharaoh lays a charge on all his people, saying, “Every son who is born—you cast him into the River, and every daughter you keep alive.”
Praecepit ergo Pharao omni populo suo, dicens: Quidquid masculini sexus natum fuerit, in flumen proiicite: quidquid feminini, reservate.
