Exodus 1

Verses of Exodus 1 of the NIV from the book of the bible

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1 - These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:
2 - Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah;
3 - Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin;
4 - Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
5 - The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.
6 - Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,
7 - but the Israelites were fruitful and multiplied greatly and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.
8 - Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt.
9 - "Look," he said to his people, "the Israelites have become much too numerous for us.
10 - Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country."
11 - So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
12 - But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites
13 - and worked them ruthlessly.
14 - They made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their hard labor the Egyptians used them ruthlessly.
15 - The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,
16 - "When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth and observe them on the delivery stool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live."
17 - The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live.
18 - Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, "Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?"
19 - The midwives answered Pharaoh, "Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive."
20 - So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous.
21 - And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.
22 - Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: "Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live."

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