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Exodus 1 :: King James Version (KJV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:1 - Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:2 - Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:3 - Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:4 - Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:5 - And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:6 - And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:7 - And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:8 - Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:9 - And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:10 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:11 - Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:12 - But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:13 - And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:15 - 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:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:16 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:17 - But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:18 - 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?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:19 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:20 - Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:21 - And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:22 - 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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