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each man and his household came with Jacob:<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now these <i>are</i> the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.</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/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,</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/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,</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/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.</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/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">All those who were descendants of Jacob were seventy persons (for Joseph was in Egypt <i>already</i>).<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt <i>already</i>.</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">And Joseph died, all his brothers, and all that generation.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And Joseph died, and all his brethren, 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 children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, multiplied and grew exceedingly mighty; and 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">And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and 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">Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.<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 up a new king over Egypt, which knew not 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">And he said to his people, “Look, the people of the children of Israel <i>are</i> more and mightier than we;<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 unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel <i>are</i> more and mightier than we:</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, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and <i>so</i> go up out of the 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 on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and <i>so</i> get them up out of 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">Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses.<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 did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure 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 they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel.<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 afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children 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">So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:</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">And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage—in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve <i>was</i> with rigor.<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 they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, <i>was</i> with rigour.</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">Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of one <i>was</i> Shiphrah and the name of 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">And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one <i>was</i> Shiphrah, and the name of 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">and he said, “When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see <i>them</i> on the birthstools, if it <i>is</i> a son, then you shall kill him; but if it <i>is</i> a daughter, then she shall 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">And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see <i>them</i> upon the stools; if it <i>be</i> a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it <i>be</i> a daughter, then 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 did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.<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 as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.</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">So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and saved the male children alive?”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?</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">And the midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women <i>are</i> not like the Egyptian women; for they <i>are</i> lively and give birth before the midwives come to 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">And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women <i>are</i> not as the Egyptian women; for they <i>are</i> lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto 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">Therefore God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very mighty.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.</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">And so it was, because the midwives feared God, that He provided households 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 it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.</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">So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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