Exodus:1-4
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Now these are the names of the children of Israel ,
which came into Egypt ;
every man and his household came with Jacob .
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Reuben ,
Simeon ,
Levi ,
and Judah ,
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Issachar ,
Zebulun ,
and Benjamin ,
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Dan ,
and Naphtali ,
Gad ,
and Asher .
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And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls :
for Joseph was in Egypt already .
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And Joseph died ,
and all his brethren ,
and all that generation .
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And the children of Israel were fruitful ,
and increased abundantly ,
and multiplied ,
and waxed exceeding mighty ;
and the land was filled with them .
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Now there arose up a new king over Egypt ,
which knew not Joseph .
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And he said unto his people ,
Behold ,
the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we :
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Come on ,
let us deal wisely with them ;
lest they multiply ,
and it come to pass ,
that ,
when there falleth out any war ,
they join also unto our enemies ,
and fight against us ,
and so get them up out of the land .
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Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens .
And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities ,
Pithom and Raamses .
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But the more they afflicted them ,
the more they multiplied and grew .
And they were grieved because of the children of Israel .
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And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour :
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And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage ,
in morter ,
and in brick ,
and in all manner of service in the field :
all their service ,
wherein they made them serve ,
was with rigour .
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And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives ,
of which the name of the one was Shiphrah ,
and the name of the other Puah :
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And he said ,
When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women ,
and see them upon the stools ;
if it be a son ,
then ye shall kill him :
but if it be a daughter ,
then she shall live .
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But the midwives feared God ,
and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them ,
but saved the men children alive .
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And the king of Egypt called for the midwives ,
and said unto them ,
Why have ye done this thing ,
and have saved the men children alive ?
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And the midwives said unto Pharaoh ,
Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women ;
for they are lively ,
and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them .
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Therefore God dealt well with the midwives :
and the people multiplied ,
and waxed very mighty .
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And it came to pass ,
because the midwives feared God ,
that he made them houses .
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And Pharaoh charged all his people ,
saying ,
Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river ,
and every daughter ye shall save alive .
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And there went a man of the house of Levi ,
and took to wife a daughter of Levi .
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And the woman conceived ,
and bare a son :
and when she saw him that he was a goodly child ,
she hid him three months .
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And when she could not longer hide him ,
she took for him an ark of bulrushes ,
and daubed it with slime and with pitch ,
and put the child therein ;
and she laid it in the flags by the river '
s brink .
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And his sister stood afar off ,
to wit what would be done to him .
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And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river ;
and her maidens walked along by the river '
s side ;
and when she saw the ark among the flags ,
she sent her maid to fetch it .
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And when she had opened it ,
she saw the child :
and ,
behold ,
the babe wept .
And she had compassion on him ,
and said ,
This is one of the Hebrews '
children .
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Then said his sister to Pharaoh '
s daughter ,
Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women ,
that she may nurse the child for thee ?
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And Pharaoh '
s daughter said to her ,
Go .
And the maid went and called the child '
s mother .
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And Pharaoh '
s daughter said unto her ,
Take this child away ,
and nurse it for me ,
and I will give thee thy wages .
And the woman took the child ,
and nursed it .
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And the child grew ,
and she brought him unto Pharaoh '
s daughter ,
and he became her son .
And she called his name Moses :
and she said ,
Because I drew him out of the water .
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And it came to pass in those days ,
when Moses was grown ,
that he went out unto his brethren ,
and looked on their burdens :
and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew ,
one of his brethren .
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And he looked this way and that way ,
and when he saw that there was no man ,
he slew the Egyptian ,
and hid him in the sand .
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And when he went out the second day ,
behold ,
two men of the Hebrews strove together :
and he said to him that did the wrong ,
Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow ?
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And he said ,
Who made thee a prince and a judge over us ?
intendest thou to kill me ,
as thou killedst the Egyptian ?
And Moses feared ,
and said ,
Surely this thing is known .
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Now when Pharaoh heard this thing ,
he sought to slay Moses .
But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh ,
and dwelt in the land of Midian :
and he sat down by a well .
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Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters :
and they came and drew water ,
and filled the troughs to water their father '
s flock .
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And the shepherds came and drove them away :
but Moses stood up and helped them ,
and watered their flock .
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And when they came to Reuel their father ,
he said ,
How is it that ye are come so soon to day ?
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And they said ,
An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds ,
and also drew water enough for us ,
and watered the flock .
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And he said unto his daughters ,
And where is he ?
why is it that ye have left the man ?
call him ,
that he may eat bread .
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And Moses was content to dwell with the man :
and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter .
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And she bare him a son ,
and he called his name Gershom :
for he said ,
I have been a stranger in a strange land .
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And it came to pass in process of time ,
that the king of Egypt died :
and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage ,
and they cried ,
and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage .
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And God heard their groaning ,
and God remembered his covenant with Abraham ,
with Isaac ,
and with Jacob .
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And God looked upon the children of Israel ,
and God had respect unto them .
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Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law ,
the priest of Midian :
and he led the flock to the backside of the desert ,
and came to the mountain of God ,
even to Horeb .
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And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush :
and he looked ,
and ,
behold ,
the bush burned with fire ,
and the bush was not consumed .
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And Moses said ,
I will now turn aside ,
and see this great sight ,
why the bush is not burnt .
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And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see ,
God called unto him out of the midst of the bush ,
and said ,
Moses ,
Moses .
And he said ,
Here am I .
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And he said ,
Draw not nigh hither :
put off thy shoes from off thy feet ,
for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground .
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Moreover he said ,
I am the God of thy father ,
the God of Abraham ,
the God of Isaac ,
and the God of Jacob .
And Moses hid his face ;
for he was afraid to look upon God .
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And the LORD said ,
I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt ,
and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters ;
for I know their sorrows ;
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And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians ,
and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large ,
unto a land flowing with milk and honey ;
unto the place of the Canaanites ,
and the Hittites ,
and the Amorites ,
and the Perizzites ,
and the Hivites ,
and the Jebusites .
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Now therefore ,
behold ,
the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me :
and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them .
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Come now therefore ,
and I will send thee unto Pharaoh ,
that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt .
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And Moses said unto God ,
Who am I ,
that I should go unto Pharaoh ,
and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt ?
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And he said ,
Certainly I will be with thee ;
and this shall be a token unto thee ,
that I have sent thee :
When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt ,
ye shall serve God upon this mountain .
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And Moses said unto God ,
Behold ,
when I come unto the children of Israel ,
and shall say unto them ,
The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you ;
and they shall say to me ,
What is his name ?
what shall I say unto them ?
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And God said unto Moses ,
I AM THAT I AM :
and he said ,
Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel ,
I AM hath sent me unto you .
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And God said moreover unto Moses ,
Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel ,
The LORD God of your fathers ,
the God of Abraham ,
the God of Isaac ,
and the God of Jacob ,
hath sent me unto you :
this is my name for ever ,
and this is my memorial unto all generations .
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Go ,
and gather the elders of Israel together ,
and say unto them ,
The LORD God of your fathers ,
the God of Abraham ,
of Isaac ,
and of Jacob ,
appeared unto me ,
saying ,
I have surely visited you ,
and seen that which is done to you in Egypt :
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And I have said ,
I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites ,
and the Hittites ,
and the Amorites ,
and the Perizzites ,
and the Hivites ,
and the Jebusites ,
unto a land flowing with milk and honey .
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And they shall hearken to thy voice :
and thou shalt come ,
thou and the elders of Israel ,
unto the king of Egypt ,
and ye shall say unto him ,
The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us :
and now let us go ,
we beseech thee ,
three days '
journey into the wilderness ,
that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God .
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And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go ,
no ,
not by a mighty hand .
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And I will stretch out my hand ,
and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof :
and after that he will let you go .
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And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians :
and it shall come to pass ,
that ,
when ye go ,
ye shall not go empty :
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But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour ,
and of her that sojourneth in her house ,
jewels of silver ,
and jewels of gold ,
and raiment :
and ye shall put them upon your sons ,
and upon your daughters ;
and ye shall spoil the Egyptians .
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And Moses answered and said ,
But ,
behold ,
they will not believe me ,
nor hearken unto my voice :
for they will say ,
The LORD hath not appeared unto thee .
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And the LORD said unto him ,
What is that in thine hand ?
And he said ,
A rod .
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And he said ,
Cast it on the ground .
And he cast it on the ground ,
and it became a serpent ;
and Moses fled from before it .
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And the LORD said unto Moses ,
Put forth thine hand ,
and take it by the tail .
And he put forth his hand ,
and caught it ,
and it became a rod in his hand :
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That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers ,
the God of Abraham ,
the God of Isaac ,
and the God of Jacob ,
hath appeared unto thee .
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And the LORD said furthermore unto him ,
Put now thine hand into thy bosom .
And he put his hand into his bosom :
and when he took it out ,
behold ,
his hand was leprous as snow .
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And he said ,
Put thine hand into thy bosom again .
And he put his hand into his bosom again ;
and plucked it out of his bosom ,
and ,
behold ,
it was turned again as his other flesh .
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And it shall come to pass ,
if they will not believe thee ,
neither hearken to the voice of the first sign ,
that they will believe the voice of the latter sign .
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And it shall come to pass ,
if they will not believe also these two signs ,
neither hearken unto thy voice ,
that thou shalt take of the water of the river ,
and pour it upon the dry land :
and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land .
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And Moses said unto the LORD ,
O my Lord ,
I am not eloquent ,
neither heretofore ,
nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant :
but I am slow of speech ,
and of a slow tongue .
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And the LORD said unto him ,
Who hath made man '
s mouth ?
or who maketh the dumb ,
or deaf ,
or the seeing ,
or the blind ?
have not I the LORD ?
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Now therefore go ,
and I will be with thy mouth ,
and teach thee what thou shalt say .
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And he said ,
O my Lord ,
send ,
I pray thee ,
by the hand of him whom thou wilt send .
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And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses ,
and he said ,
Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother ?
I know that he can speak well .
And also ,
behold ,
he cometh forth to meet thee :
and when he seeth thee ,
he will be glad in his heart .
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And thou shalt speak unto him ,
and put words in his mouth :
and I will be with thy mouth ,
and with his mouth ,
and will teach you what ye shall do .
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And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people :
and he shall be ,
even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth ,
and thou shalt be to him instead of God .
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And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand ,
wherewith thou shalt do signs .
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And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law ,
and said unto him ,
Let me go ,
I pray thee ,
and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt ,
and see whether they be yet alive .
And Jethro said to Moses ,
Go in peace .
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And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian ,
Go ,
return into Egypt :
for all the men are dead which sought thy life .
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And Moses took his wife and his sons ,
and set them upon an ass ,
and he returned to the land of Egypt :
and Moses took the rod of God in his hand .
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And the LORD said unto Moses ,
When thou goest to return into Egypt ,
see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh ,
which I have put in thine hand :
but I will harden his heart ,
that he shall not let the people go .
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And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh ,
Thus saith the LORD ,
Israel is my son ,
even my firstborn :
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And I say unto thee ,
Let my son go ,
that he may serve me :
and if thou refuse to let him go ,
behold ,
I will slay thy son ,
even thy firstborn .
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And it came to pass by the way in the inn ,
that the LORD met him ,
and sought to kill him .
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Then Zipporah took a sharp stone ,
and cut off the foreskin of her son ,
and cast it at his feet ,
and said ,
Surely a bloody husband art thou to me .
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So he let him go :
then she said ,
A bloody husband thou art ,
because of the circumcision .
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And the LORD said to Aaron ,
Go into the wilderness to meet Moses .
And he went ,
and met him in the mount of God ,
and kissed him .
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And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him ,
and all the signs which he had commanded him .
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And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel :
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And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses ,
and did the signs in the sight of the people .
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And the people believed :
and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel ,
and that he had looked upon their affliction ,
then they bowed their heads and worshipped .
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And afterward Moses and Aaron went in ,
and told Pharaoh ,
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel ,
Let my people go ,
that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness .
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