Exodus:1:1-2:10
rsv@Exodus:1:1 @ These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:
rsv@Exodus:1:2 @ Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
rsv@Exodus:1:3 @ Is'sachar, Zeb'ulun, and Benjamin,
rsv@Exodus:1:4 @ Dan and Naph'tali, Gad and Asher.
rsv@Exodus:1:5 @ All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt.
rsv@Exodus:1:6 @ Then Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.
rsv@Exodus:1:7 @ But the descendants of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong; so that the land was filled with them.
rsv@Exodus:1:8 @ Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
rsv@Exodus:1:9 @ And he said to his people, "Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us.
rsv@Exodus:1:10 @ Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war befall us, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land."
rsv@Exodus:1:11 @ Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens; and they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Ra-am'ses.
rsv@Exodus:1:12 @ But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.
rsv@Exodus:1:13 @ So they made the people of Israel serve with rigor,
rsv@Exodus:1:14 @ and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field; in all their work they made them serve with rigor.
rsv@Exodus:1:15 @ Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiph'rah and the other Pu'ah,
rsv@Exodus:1:16 @ "When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, she shall live."
rsv@Exodus:1:17 @ But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.
rsv@Exodus:1:18 @ So the king of Egypt called the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this, and let the male children live?"
rsv@Exodus:1:19 @ The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and are delivered before the midwife comes to them."
rsv@Exodus:1:20 @ So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and grew very strong.
rsv@Exodus:1:21 @ And because the midwives feared God he gave them families.
rsv@Exodus:1:22 @ Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live."
rsv@Exodus:2:1 @ Now a man from the house of Levi went and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
rsv@Exodus:2:2 @ The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
rsv@Exodus:2:3 @ And when she could hide him no longer she took for him a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with bitumen and pitch; and she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds at the river's brink.
rsv@Exodus:2:4 @ And his sister stood at a distance, to know what would be done to him.
rsv@Exodus:2:5 @ Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, and her maidens walked beside the river; she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to fetch it.
rsv@Exodus:2:6 @ When she opened it she saw the child; and lo, the babe was crying. She took pity on him and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."
rsv@Exodus:2:7 @ Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?"
rsv@Exodus:2:8 @ And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." So the girl went and called the child's mother.
rsv@Exodus:2:9 @ And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him.
rsv@Exodus:2:10 @ And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son; and she named him Moses, for she said, "Because I drew him out of the water."
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