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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Exodus 1 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Exodus 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/50.htm" title="Genesis 50">◄</a> Exodus 1 <a href="../exodus/2.htm" title="Exodus 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The Israelites Are Treated Cruelly in Egypt</h3><p class="par"><span class="v1_1_1"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.1.1" class="v1_1_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.1.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The sons of Jacob who went to Egypt with him, each with his family, were </span><span class="v1_1_2"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.1.2" class="v1_1_2">2</span>Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, </span><span class="v1_1_3"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.1.3" class="v1_1_3">3</span>Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, </span><span class="v1_1_4"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.1.4" class="v1_1_4">4</span>Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. </span><span class="v1_1_5"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.1.5" class="v1_1_5">5</span>The total number of these people directly descended from Jacob was seventy.<a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.1.5!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> His son Joseph was already in Egypt. </span><span class="v1_1_6"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.1.6" class="v1_1_6">6</span>In the course of time Joseph, his brothers, and all the rest of that generation died, </span><span class="v1_1_7"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.1.7" class="v1_1_7">7</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.1.7!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> but their descendants, the Israelites, had many children and became so numerous and strong that Egypt was filled with them.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_1_8"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.1.8" class="v1_1_8">8</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.1.8!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then, a new king, who knew nothing about Joseph, came to power in Egypt. </span><span class="v1_1_9"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.1.9" class="v1_1_9">9</span>He said to his people, “These Israelites are so numerous and strong that they are a threat to us. </span><span class="v1_1_10"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.1.10" class="v1_1_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.1.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> In case of war they might join our enemies in order to fight against us, and might escape from<a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.1.10!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> the country. We must find some way to keep them from becoming even more numerous.” </span><span class="v1_1_11"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.1.11" class="v1_1_11">11</span>So the Egyptians put slave drivers over them to crush their spirits with hard labor. The Israelites built the cities of Pithom and Rameses to serve as supply centers for the king. </span><span class="v1_1_12"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.1.12" class="v1_1_12">12</span>But the more the Egyptians oppressed the Israelites, the more they increased in number and the farther they spread through the land. The Egyptians came to fear the Israelites </span><span class="v1_1_13"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.1.13-Exod.1.14" class="v1_1_13">13-14</span>and made their lives miserable by forcing them into cruel slavery. They made them work on their building projects and in their fields, and they had no pity on them.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_1_15"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.1.15" class="v1_1_15">15</span>Then the king of Egypt spoke to Shiphrah and Puah, the two midwives who helped the Hebrew women. </span><span class="v1_1_16"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.1.16" class="v1_1_16">16</span>“When you help the Hebrew women give birth,” he said to them, “kill the baby if it is a boy; but if it is a girl, let it live.” </span><span class="v1_1_17"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.1.17" class="v1_1_17">17</span>But the midwives were God-fearing and so did not obey the king; instead, they let the boys live. </span><span class="v1_1_18"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.1.18" class="v1_1_18">18</span>So the king sent for the midwives and asked them, “Why are you doing this? Why are you letting the boys live?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_1_19"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.1.19" class="v1_1_19">19</span>They answered, “The Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they give birth easily, and their babies are born before either of us gets there.” </span><span class="v1_1_20"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.1.20-Exod.1.21" class="v1_1_20">20-21</span>Because the midwives were God-fearing, God was good to them and gave them families of their own. And the Israelites continued to increase and become strong. </span><span class="v1_1_22"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.1.22" class="v1_1_22">22</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.1.22!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Finally the king issued a command to all his people: “Take every newborn Hebrew boy and throw him into the Nile, but let all the girls live.”</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1.5: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation </char><char style="fq" closed="false">seventy-five </char><char style="ft" closed="false">(see Ac 7.14).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1.10: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">escape from; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">take control of.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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