Exodus 1
1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):
| وَهَذِهِ هِيَ أَسْمَاءُ أَبْنَاءِ إِسْرَائِيلَ الَّذِينَ قَدِمُوا مَعَ يَعْقُوبَ إِلَى مِصْرَ، كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ مَعَ أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ. | ١ |
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
| رَأُوبَيْنُ، وَشِمْعُونُ، وَلاوِي وَيَهُوذَا، | ٢ |
3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
| وَيَسَّاكَرُ وَزَبُولُونُ وَبَنْيَامِينُ، | ٣ |
4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
| وَدَانٌ وَنَفْتَالِي وَجَادٌ وَأَشِيرُ. | ٤ |
5 All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
| وَكَانَتْ جُمْلَةُ النُّفُوسِ الْمَوْلُودِينَ مِنْ صُلْبِ يَعْقُوبَ سَبْعِينَ نَفْساً. أَمَّا يُوسُفُ فَقَدْ كَانَ فِي مِصْرَ. | ٥ |
6 Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.
| ثُمَّ مَاتَ يُوسُفُ وَإخْوَتُهُ جَمِيعاً وَكَذَلِكَ سَائِرُ ذَلِكَ الْجِيلِ. | ٦ |
7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
| وَنَمَا بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَتَوَالَدُوا وَتَكَاثَرُوا وَعَظُمُوا جِدّاً حَتَّى اكْتَظَّتْ بِهِمِ الأَرْضُ. | ٧ |
8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.
| وَمَا لَبِثَ أَنْ قَامَ مَلِكٌ جَدِيدٌ عَلَى مِصْرَ لَمْ يَكُنْ يَعْرِفُ يُوسُفَ. | ٨ |
9 He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
| فَقَالَ لِشَعْبِهِ: «هَا بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ أَكْثَرُ مِنَّا وَأَعْظَمُ قُوَّةً. | ٩ |
10 Come, let’s 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.”
| فَلْنَتَآمَرْ عَلَيْهِمْ لِكَيْلا يَتَكَاثَرُوا وَيَنْضَمُّوا إِلَى أَعْدَائِنَا إِذَا نَشَبَ قِتَالٌ وَيُحَارِبُونَا ثُمَّ يَخْرُجُوا مِنَ الأَرْضِ». | ١٠ |
11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
| فَعَهِدُوا بِهِمْ إِلَى مُشْرِفِينَ عُتَاةٍ لِيُسَخِّرُوهُمْ بِالأَعْمَالِ الشَّاقَةِ. فَبَنَوْا مَدِينَتَيْ فِيثُومَ وَرَعَمْسِيسَ لِتَكُونَا مَخَازِنَ لِفِرْعَوْنَ. | ١١ |
12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.
| وَلَكِنْ كُلَّمَا زَادُوا مِنْ إذْلالِهِمْ، ازْدَادَ تَكَاثُرُهُمْ وَنُمُوُّهُمْ، فَتَخَوَّفُوا مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ | ١٢ |
13 The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,
| فَتَزَايَدَ عُنْفُ اسْتِعْبَادِ الْمِصْرِيِّينَ لِبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ١٣ |
14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
| وَأَتْعَسُوا حَيَاتَهُمْ بالأَعْمَالِ الشَّاقَةِ فِي الطِّينِ وَاللِّبْنِ كَادِحِينَ فِي الْحُقُولِ. وسَخَّرَهُمُ الْمِصْرِيُّونَ بِعُنْفٍ فِي كُلِّ أَعْمَالِهِمِ الشَّاقَةِ. | ١٤ |
15 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,
| ثُمَّ قَالَ مَلِكُ مِصْرَ لِلْقَابِلَتَيْنِ الْعِبْرَانِيَّتَيْنِ الْمَدْعُوَّتَيْنِ شِفْرَةَ وَفُوعَةَ: | ١٥ |
16 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.”
| «عِنْدَمَا تُشْرِفَانِ عَلَى تَوْلِيدِ النِّسَاءِ الْعِبْرَانِيَّاتِ رَاقِبَاهُنَّ عَلَى كُرْسِيِّ الْوِلادَةِ، فَإنْ كَانَ الْمَوْلُودُ صَبِيًّا فَاقْتُلاهُ، وَإِنْ كَانَ بِنْتاً فاتْرُكَاهَا تَحْيَا». | ١٦ |
17 But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
| غَيْرَ أَنَّ الْقَابِلَتَيْنِ كَانَتَا تَخَافَانِ اللهَ فَلَمْ تُنَفِّذَا أَمْرَ الْمَلِكِ فاسْتَحْيَتَا الأَطْفَالَ الذُّكُورَ. | ١٧ |
18 The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing and saved the boys alive?”
| فَاسْتَدْعَى مَلِكُ مِصْرَ الْقَابِلَتَيْنِ وَسَأَلَهُمَا: «لِمَاذَا فَعَلْتُمَا هَذَا الأَمْرَ واسْتَحْيَيْتُمَا الأَطْفَالَ الذُّكُورَ؟» | ١٨ |
19 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.”
| فَأَجَابَتَاهُ: «إنَّ النِّسَاءَ الْعِبْرَانِيَّاتِ لَسْنَ كَالْمِصْرِيَّاتِ، فَإِنَّهُنَّ قَوِيَّاتٌ يَلِدْنَ قَبْلَ وُصُولِ الْقَابِلَةِ إِلَيْهِنَّ». | ١٩ |
20 God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
| وَتَكَاثَرَ الشَّعْبُ وَعَظُمَ جِدّاً. | ٢٠ |
21 Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
| وَإِذْ خَافَتِ الْقَابِلَتَانِ اللهَ أَثَابَهُمَا بِنَسْلٍ. | ٢١ |
22 Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”
| ثُمَّ أَصْدَرَ فِرْعَوْنُ أَمْرَهُ لِجَمِيعِ شَعْبِهِ قَائِلاً: «اطْرَحُوا كُلَّ ابْنٍ (عِبْرَانِيٍّ) يُوْلَدُ فِي النَّهْرِ، أَمَّا الْبَنَاتُ فَاسْتَحْيُوهُنَّ». | ٢٢ |
