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 sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:

2 Reuben Simeon Levi and Judah.

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

3 Issachar Zebulun and Benjamin.

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

4 Dan and Naphtali Gad and Asher.

Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

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

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

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

Joseph died, as did all his brothers, 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 were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And the Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel labor,

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 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.

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.

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,

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.

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."

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 what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

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.

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

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.

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."

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

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

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

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

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!

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."