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Exodus 1:1-22 — Israel Oppressed in Egypt

Exod.1.1-22

¹These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each man with his household: ²Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; ³Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; ⁴Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. ⁵All the persons descended from Jacob were seventy in number, and Joseph was already in Egypt. ⁶Then Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation. ⁷But the sons of Israel were fruitful and teemed and multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them. ⁸Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not acknowledge Joseph. ⁹And he said to his people, 'Look, the people of the sons of Israel are too many and too strong for us.' ¹⁰Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply; then if war breaks out, they too may join our enemies, fight against us, and go up out of the land. ¹¹So they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with heavy burdens, and they built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses. ¹²But the more they oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread out, so that the Egyptians came to dread the sons of Israel. ¹³So the Egyptians ruthlessly made the sons of Israel serve. ¹⁴They made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and brick and in every kind of work in the field. In all their labor they made them serve ruthlessly. ¹⁵Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, ¹⁶'When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth and see them on the birthstool , if it is a son, you shall put him to death; but if it is a daughter, she shall live.' ¹⁷But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had told them; they kept the boys alive. ¹⁸So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, 'Why have you done this and kept the boys alive?' ¹⁹The midwives said to Pharaoh, 'Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.' ²⁰So God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and became very strong. ²¹And because the midwives feared God, he established households for them . ²²Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, 'Every newborn son you shall throw into the Nile, but every daughter you shall let live.'

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4/11/2026

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