Exodus:1

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ylt @Exodus:1:1 @And these [are ] the names of the sons of Israel who are coming into Egypt with Jacob ; a man and his household have they come ; ylt @Exodus:1:2 @Reuben , Simeon , Levi , and Judah , ylt @Exodus:1:3 @Issachar , Zebulun , and Benjamin , ylt @Exodus:1:4 @Dan , and Naphtali , Gad , and Asher . ylt @Exodus:1:5 @And all the persons coming out of the thigh of Jacob are seventy persons ; as to Joseph , he was in Egypt . ylt @Exodus:1:6 @And Joseph dieth , and all his brethren , and all that generation ; ylt @Exodus:1:7 @and the sons of Israel have been fruitful , and they teem , and multiply , and are very very mighty , and the land is filled with them . ylt @Exodus:1:8 @And there riseth a new king over Egypt , who hath not known Joseph , ylt @Exodus:1:9 @and he saith unto his people , 'Lo , the people of the sons of Israel [is ] more numerous and mighty than we ; ylt @Exodus:1:10 @give help ! let us act wisely concerning it , lest it multiply , and it hath come to pass , when war happeneth , that it hath been joined , even it , unto those hating us , and hath fought against us , and hath gone out up of the land .' ylt @Exodus:1:11 @And they set over it princes of tribute , so as to afflict it with their burdens , and it buildeth store-cities for Pharaoh , Pithom and Raamses ; ylt @Exodus:1:12 @and as they afflict it , so it multiplieth , and so it breaketh forth , and they are vexed because of the sons of Israel ; ylt @Exodus:1:13 @and the Egyptians cause the sons of Israel to serve with rigour , ylt @Exodus:1:14 @and make their lives bitter in hard service , in clay , and in brick , and in every [kind ] of service in the field ; all their service in which they have served [is ] with rigour . ylt @Exodus:1:15 @And the king of Egypt speaketh to the midwives , the Hebrewesses , (of whom the name of the one [is ] Shiphrah , and the name of the second Puah ), ylt @Exodus:1:16 @and saith , 'When ye cause the Hebrew women to bear , and have looked on the children ; if it [is ] a son -- then ye have put him to death ; and if it [is ] a daughter -- then she hath lived .' ylt @Exodus:1:17 @And the midwives fear God , and have not done as the king of Egypt hath spoken unto them , and keep the lads alive ; ylt @Exodus:1:18 @and the king of Egypt calleth for the midwives , and saith to them , 'Wherefore have ye done this thing , and keep the lads alive ?' ylt @Exodus:1:19 @And the midwives say unto Pharaoh , 'Because the Hebrew women [are ] not as the Egyptian women , for they [are ] lively ; before the midwife cometh in unto them -- they have borne !' ylt @Exodus:1:20 @And God doth good to the midwives , and the people multiply , and are very mighty ; ylt @Exodus:1:21 @and it cometh to pass , because the midwives have feared God , that He maketh for them households ; ylt @Exodus:1:22 @and Pharaoh layeth a charge on all his people , saying , 'Every son who is born -- into the River ye do cast him , and every daughter ye do keep alive .'

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