Êxodo 1
1 Estes pois são os nomes dos filhos de Israel, que entraram no Egypto com Jacob: cada um entrou com sua casa:
These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:
2 Ruben, Simeão, Levi, e Judah;
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
3 Issacar, Zabulon, e Benjamin;
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
4 Dan e Naphtali, Gad e Aser.
Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
5 Todas as almas, pois, que procederam da côxa de Jacob, foram setenta almas: José, porém, estava no Egypto.
All the people who were directly descended from Jacob were seventy-five, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
6 Sendo pois José fallecido, e todos os seus irmãos, e toda aquella geração,
Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.
7 Os filhos de Israel fructificaram, e augmentaram muito, e multiplicaram-se, e foram fortalecidos grandemente; de maneira que a terra se encheu d'elles.
The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
8 Depois levantou-se um novo rei sobre o Egypto, que não conhecera a José;
Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
9 O qual disse ao seu povo: Eis que o povo dos filhos de Israel é muito, e mais poderoso do que nós.
He said to his people, "Look, the people of the sons of Israel are more and mightier than we.
10 Eia, usemos sabiamente para com elle, para que não se multiplique, e aconteça que, vindo guerra, elle tambem se ajunte com os nossos inimigos, e peleje contra nós, e suba da terra.
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 E pozeram sobre elles maioraes de tributos, para os affligirem com suas cargas. Porque edificaram a Pharaó cidades de thesouros, Pitom e Ramesses.
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Rameses.
12 Mas quanto mais o affligiam, tanto mais se multiplicava, e tanto mais crescia: de maneira que se enfadavam por causa dos filhos de 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 E os egypcios faziam servir os filhos de Israel com dureza;
And the Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel labor,
14 Assim que lhes fizeram amargar a vida com dura servidão em barro, e em tijolos, e com todo o trabalho no campo; com todo o seu serviço, em que os serviam com dureza.
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 E o rei do Egypto fallou ás parteiras das hebreas (das quaes o nome de uma era Siphra, e o nome da outra Pua),
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 E disse: Quando ajudardes a parir as hebreas, e as virdes sobre os assentos, se fôr filho, matae-o; mas se fôr filha, então viva.
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 As parteiras, porém, temeram a Deus, e não fizeram como o rei do Egypto lhes dissera, antes conservavam os meninos com vida.
But the midwives feared God, and did not do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
18 Então o rei do Egypto chamou as parteiras, e disse-lhes: Porque fizestes isto, que guardastes os meninos com vida?
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 E as parteiras disseram a Pharaó: Porquanto as mulheres hebreas não são como as egypcias: porque são vivas, e já teem parido antes que a parteira venha a ellas.
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 Portanto Deus fez bem ás parteiras. E o povo se augmentou, e se fortaleceu muito.
God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
21 E aconteceu que, porquanto as parteiras temeram a Deus, estabeleceu-lhes casas.
It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.
22 Então ordenou Pharaó a todo o seu povo, dizendo: A todos os filhos que nascerem lancareis no rio, mas a todas as filhas guardareis com vida.
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."
