Exodus 1

1 And these [are] [the] names of [the] sons of Israel who went Egypt towards with Jacob everyone and household his they went.

These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Egypt with Jacob: they went in, every man with his household:

2 Reuben Simeon Levi and Judah.

Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,

3 Issachar Zebulun and Benjamin.

Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin,

4 Dan and Naphtali Gad and Asher.

Dan, and Nephtali, Gad and Aser.

5 And it was every person [who] came out of [the] thigh of Jacob seventy person[s] and Joseph he was in Egypt.

And all the souls that came out of Jacob’s thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.

6 And he died Joseph and all brothers his and all the generation that.

After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,

7 And [the] people of Israel they were fruitful and they swarmed and they multiplied and they became mighty with muchness muchness and it was filled the land with them.

The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.

8 And he arose a king new over Egypt who not he knew Joseph.

In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph:

9 And he said to people his here! [the] people of [the] people of Israel [is] numerous and mighty more than us.

And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we.

10 Give! let us deal wisely to it lest it should increase and it will be that they will happen war and it will be added also it to [those who] hate us and it will fight against us and it will go up from the land.

Come, let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome us, depart out of the land.

11 And they appointed over it overseers of slave gangs so as to afflict it with forced labor their and it built cities of storage for Pharaoh Pithom and Rameses.

Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens, and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom and Ramesses.

12 And just as people afflicted it so it increased and so it spread and people felt dread because of [the] people of Israel.

But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied, and increased:

13 And they compelled to labor Egypt [the] people of Israel with harshness.

And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them:

14 And they made bitter lives their with labor hard in mortar and in bricks and in all labor in the field all labor their which they labored by them with harshness.

And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay, and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.

15 And he said [the] king of Egypt to the midwives Hebrew who [the] name of the one [was] Shiphrah and [the] name of the second [was] Puah.

And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,

16 And he said when assist as midwife you the Hebrew [women] and you will look at the stones if [is] a son he and you will kill him and if [is] a daughter she and she will live.

Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive.

17 And they feared the midwives God and not they did just as he had spoken to them [the] king of Egypt and they let live the [male] children.

But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.

18 And he summoned [the] king of Egypt the midwives and he said to them why? have you done the thing this and have you let live? the [male] children.

And the king called for them and said: What is that you meant to do, that you would save the men children?

19 And they said the midwives to Pharaoh for not [are] like the women Egyptian the Hebrew [women] that [are] vigorous they before she comes to them the midwife and they give birth.

They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves are skillful in the office of a midwife; and they are delivered before we come to them.

20 And he did good God to the midwives and it increased the people and they became mighty exceedingly.

Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.

21 And it was that they feared the midwives God and he appointed for them households.

And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.

22 And he commanded Pharaoh to all people his saying every son born the River towards you will throw him and every daughter you will let live!

Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of the female, ye shall save alive.