Exodus:1:11-22

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* Therefore they did set over them taskmasters mac # to afflict them with their burdens . And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities , Pithom and Raamses Ra #m @cec #. * But the more they afflicted them , the more they multiplied and grew . And they were grieved because of the children of Israel Yisra #el #. * And the Egyptians madethe children of Israel to serve with rigour : * 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 . * 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 Puw #ah #: * 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 . * But the midwives feared God , and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them , but saved # the men children alive . * 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 ? * And the midwives said unto Pharaoh Par #oh #, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women ; for they are lively , and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them . * Therefore God dealt well with the midwives : and the people multiplied , and waxed very mighty . * And it came to pass , because the midwives feared God , that he made them houses . * And Pharaoh charged all his people , saying , Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river y @#or #, and every daughter ye shall save alive .

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