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1:1  These are the names of the sons of Israel who, accompanied by their households, entered into Egypt with Jacob:
1:2  Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah;
1:3  Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin;
1:4  Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
1:5  The total number of Jacob’s direct descendants was seventy. Joseph was already in Egypt.
1:6  Now Joseph and all his brothers and that whole generation died.
1:7  But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific. They multiplied and became so very numerous that the land was filled with them.
1:8  Then a new king, who knew nothing of Joseph, rose to power in Egypt.
1:9  He said to his people, “See! The Israelite people have multiplied and become more numerous than we are!
1:10  Come, let us deal shrewdly with them to stop their increase; otherwise, in time of war they too may join our enemies to fight against us, and so leave the land.”
1:11  Accordingly, they set supervisors over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. Thus they had to build for Pharaoh the garrison cities of Pithom and Raamses.
1:12  Yet the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians began to loathe the Israelites.
1:13  So the Egyptians reduced the Israelites to cruel slavery,
1:14  making life bitter for them with hard labor, at mortar and brick and all kinds of field work—cruelly oppressed in all their labor.
1:15  The king of Egypt told the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was called Shiphrah and the other Puah,
1:16  “When you act as midwives for the Hebrew women, look on the birthstool: if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she may live.”
1:17  The midwives, however, feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt had ordered them, but let the boys live.
1:18  So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this, allowing the boys to live?”
1:19  The midwives answered Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women. They are robust and give birth before the midwife arrives.”
1:20  Therefore God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and grew very numerous.
1:21  And because the midwives feared God, God built up families for them.
1:22  Pharaoh then commanded all his people, “Throw into the Nile every boy that is born, but you may let all the girls live.”