Exodus 1

1 haec sunt nomina filiorum Israhel qui ingressi sunt Aegyptum cum Iacob singuli cum domibus suis introierunt

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

2 Ruben Symeon Levi Iuda

Reuben Simeon Levi and Judah.

3 Isachar Zabulon et Beniamin

Issachar Zebulun and Benjamin.

4 Dan et Nepthalim Gad et Aser

Dan and Naphtali Gad and Asher.

5 erant igitur omnes animae eorum qui egressi sunt de femore Iacob septuaginta Ioseph autem in Aegypto erat

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

6 quo mortuo et universis fratribus eius omnique cognatione illa

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

7 filii Israhel creverunt et quasi germinantes multiplicati sunt ac roborati nimis impleverunt terram

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 surrexit interea rex novus super Aegyptum qui ignorabat Ioseph

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

9 et ait ad populum suum ecce populus filiorum Israhel multus et fortior nobis

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

10 venite sapienter opprimamus eum ne forte multiplicetur et si ingruerit contra nos bellum addatur inimicis nostris expugnatisque nobis egrediatur e terra

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 praeposuit itaque eis magistros operum ut adfligerent eos oneribus aedificaveruntque urbes tabernaculorum Pharaoni Phiton et Ramesses

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 quantoque opprimebant eos tanto magis multiplicabantur et crescebant

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

13 oderantque filios Israhel Aegyptii et adfligebant inludentes eis

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

14 atque ad amaritudinem perducebant vitam eorum operibus duris luti et lateris omnique famulatu quo in terrae operibus premebantur

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 dixit autem rex Aegypti obsetricibus Hebraeorum quarum una vocabatur Sephra altera Phua

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 praecipiens eis quando obsetricabitis Hebraeas et partus tempus advenerit si masculus fuerit interficite illum si femina reservate

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 timuerunt autem obsetrices Deum et non fecerunt iuxta praeceptum regis Aegypti sed conservabant mares

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 quibus ad se accersitis rex ait quidnam est hoc quod facere voluistis ut pueros servaretis

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 quae responderunt non sunt hebraeae sicut aegyptiae mulieres ipsae enim obsetricandi habent scientiam et priusquam veniamus ad eas pariunt

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 bene ergo fecit Deus obsetricibus et crevit populus confortatusque est nimis

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

21 et quia timuerant obsetrices Deum aedificavit illis domos

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

22 praecepit autem Pharao omni populo suo dicens quicquid masculini sexus natum fuerit in flumen proicite quicquid feminei reservate

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!