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Now Joseph was already in Egypt. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Joseph, all his brothers, and that entire generation died. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But the Israelis were fruitful and increased abundantly. They multiplied in numbers and became very, very strong. As a result, the land was filled with them.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Eventually a new king who was unacquainted with Joseph came to power in Egypt. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He told his people, "Look, the Israeli people are more numerous and more powerful than we are. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Come on, let's be careful how we treat them, so that when they grow numerous, if a war breaks out they won't join our enemies, fight against us, and leave our land." <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So the Egyptians placed supervisors over them, oppressing them with heavy burdens. The Israelis built the supply cities of Pithom and Rameses for Pharaoh. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But the more the Egyptians afflicted the Israelis, the more they multiplied and flourished, so that the Egyptians became terrified of the Israelis. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The Egyptians ruthlessly forced the Israelis to serve them, <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">making their lives bitter through hard labor with mortar, bricks, and all kinds of outdoor labor. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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 ruthlessly made them work as slaves.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Later, the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"When you help the Hebrew women give birth," he said, "watch them as they deliver. If it's a son, kill him; but if it's a daughter, let her live." <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But the midwives feared God and didn't do what the king of Egypt told them. Instead, they let the boys live.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When the king of Egypt called for the midwives, he asked them, "Why have you done this and allowed the boys to live?"<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and let the male children live?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Hebrew women aren't like Egyptian women," the midwives replied to Pharaoh. "They're so healthy that they give birth before the midwives arrive to help them."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The 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.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">God was pleased with the midwives, and the people multiplied and became very strong. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So God dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied and grew very strong.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Because the midwives feared God, he provided families for them. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Meanwhile, Pharaoh continued commanding all of his people, "You're to throw every Hebrew son who is born into the Nile River, but you're to allow every Hebrew daughter to live."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.”</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1 Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.</td><td class="copy" width="50%">ESV Text Edition: 2016. 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