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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 Smith's Literal Translation</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="../">SLT</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/exodus/1-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Israelites Multiply in Egypt<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../genesis/46.htm#7">Genesis 46:7–27</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>These the names of the sons of Israel coming into Egypt with Jacob; a man and his house came. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin, <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And these will be all the souls that came out of the thigh of Jacob, seventy souls: and Joseph was in Egypt. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Joseph will die, and all his brethren, and all that generation. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And the sons of Israel were fruitful, and they will multiply abundantly, and they will increase, and will become strong with might exceedingly; and the land will be filled with them.<p> <A name="9"></a><p class="hdg">Oppression by a New King<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../acts/7.htm#15">Acts 7:15–19</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And a new king will arise over Egypt, who will not know Joseph. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he will say to his people, Behold, the people of the sons of Israel, many, being strong above us. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Come, we will be wise with them, lest they shall multiply, and it was when war shall happen, and also being added to our armies and fighting against us, and they went up from the land. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And they will set over them leaders of the tributes in order to afflict them in their burdens. And they will build cities of stores for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And as they will afflict them, so they will multiply and will increase. And they will feel disgust from the face of the sons of Israel. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the Egyptians will make the sons of Israel serve by oppression. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And they will embitter their lives by hard work in clay, and in bricks, and in all work in the field: all their work in which they made them serve by oppression.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the king of Egypt will say to the midwives of the Hebrews, of whom the name of the one Shiprah, and the name of the second, Puah; <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And he will say, In the delivering the Hebrew women, and seeing upon the stools, if it is a son, ye shall kill him; and if it is a daughter, preserve alive. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the midwives will fear God, and they did not according to what the king of Egypt said to them, and they will preserve alive the boys. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And the king of Egypt will call to the midwives, and will say to them, Wherefore did ye this word, and ye will preserve alive the boys? <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And the midwives will say to Pharaoh, That the Hebrewesses are not as the Egyptian women, for they giving life before the midwives shall come in to them, and they will bring forth. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And God will do well to the midwives, and the people will multiply and be greatly strong. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And it will be because the midwives will fear God, and he will make houses for them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Pharaoh will command to all the people, saying, Every son being brought forth ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall preserve alive.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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