Exodus 1
1 Hæc sunt nomina filiorum Israël qui ingressi sunt in Ægyptum cum Jacob: singuli cum domibus suis introierunt:
Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):
2 Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Judas,
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
3 Issachar, Zabulon et Benjamin,
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
4 Dan et Nephthali, Gad et Aser.
Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
5 Erant igitur omnes animæ eorum qui egressi sunt de femore Jacob, septuaginta: Joseph autem in Ægypto erat.
All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
6 Quo mortuo, et universis fratribus ejus, omnique cognatione illa,
Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.
7 filii Israël creverunt, et quasi germinantes multiplicati sunt: ac roborati nimis, impleverunt terram.
The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
8 Surrexit interea rex novus super Ægyptum, qui ignorabat Joseph.
Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.
9 Et ait ad populum suum: Ecce, populus filiorum Israël multus, et fortior nobis est.
He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
10 Venite, sapienter opprimamus eum, ne forte multiplicetur: et si ingruerit contra nos bellum, addatur inimicis nostris, expugnatisque nobis egrediatur de terra.
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.”
11 Præposuit itaque eis magistros operum, ut affligerent eos oneribus: ædificaveruntque urbes tabernaculorum Pharaoni, Phithom et Ramesses.
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
12 Quantoque opprimebant eos, tanto magis multiplicabantur, et crescebant:
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.
13 oderantque filios Israël Ægyptii, et affligebant illudentes eis,
The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,
14 atque ad amaritudinem perducebant vitam eorum operibus duris luti et lateris, omnique famulatu, quo in terræ operibus premebantur.
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.
15 Dixit autem rex Ægypti obstetricibus Hebræorum, quarum una vocabatur Sephora, altera Phua,
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 præcipiens eis: Quando obstetricabitis Hebræas, et partus tempus advenerit: si masculus fuerit, interficite eum: si femina, reservate.
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 Timuerunt autem obstetrices Deum, et non fecerunt juxta præceptum regis Ægypti, sed conservabant mares.
But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
18 Quibus ad se accersitis, rex ait: Quidnam est hoc quod facere voluistis, ut pueros servaretis?
The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing and saved the boys alive?”
19 Quæ responderunt: Non sunt Hebreæ sicut ægyptiæ mulieres: ipsæ enim obstetricandi habent scientiam, et priusquam veniamus ad eas, pariunt.
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 Bene ergo fecit Deus obstetricibus: et crevit populus, confortatusque est nimis.
God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
21 Et quia timuerunt obstetrices Deum, ædificavit eis domos.
Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
22 Præcepit ergo Pharao omni populo suo, dicens: Quidquid masculini sexus natum fuerit, in flumen projicite: quidquid feminini, reservate.
Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”
