< 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.
2 Reuben Simeon Levi and Judah.
3 Issachar Zebulun and Benjamin.
4 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.
6 And he died Joseph and all brothers his and all the generation that.
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.
8 And he arose a king new over Egypt who not he knew Joseph.
9 And he said to people his here! [the] people of [the] people of Israel [is] numerous and mighty more than us.
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.
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.
12 And just as people afflicted it so it increased and so it spread and people felt dread because of [the] people of Israel.
13 And they compelled to labor Egypt [the] people of Israel with harshness.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
20 And he did good God to the midwives and it increased the people and they became mighty exceedingly.
21 And it was that they feared the midwives God and he appointed for them households.
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!