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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/exodus/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">The Israelites in Egypt</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>These are the names of the sons of Israel (that is, Jacob) who moved to Egypt with their father, each with his family: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>In all, Jacob had seventy<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> descendants in Egypt, including Joseph, who was already there.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>In time, Joseph and all of his brothers died, ending that entire generation. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But their descendants, the Israelites, had many children and grandchildren. In fact, they multiplied so greatly that they became extremely powerful and filled the land.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Eventually, a new king came to power in Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph or what he had done. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He said to his people, “Look, the people of Israel now outnumber us and are stronger than we are. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more. If we don’t, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us. Then they will escape from the country.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a>”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor. They forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more the Israelites multiplied and spread, and the more alarmed the Egyptians became. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So the Egyptians worked the people of Israel without mercy. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They made their lives bitter, forcing them to mix mortar and make bricks and do all the work in the fields. They were ruthless in all their demands.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, gave this order to the Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“When you help the Hebrew women as they give birth, watch as they deliver.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> If the baby is a boy, kill him; if it is a girl, let her live.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But because the midwives feared God, they refused to obey the king’s orders. They allowed the boys to live, too.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So the king of Egypt called for the midwives. “Why have you done this?” he demanded. “Why have you allowed the boys to live?”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women,” the midwives replied. “They are more vigorous and have their babies so quickly that we cannot get there in time.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So God was good to the midwives, and the Israelites continued to multiply, growing more and more powerful. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Throw every newborn Hebrew boy into the Nile River. But you may let the girls live.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls and Greek version read </span><span class="it">seventy-five;</span><span class="ft"> see notes on Gen 46:27.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">will take the country.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:16 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">look upon the two stones;</span><span class="ft"> perhaps the reference is to a birthstool.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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