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Now these are the names[H8034] of the children[H1121] of Israel[H3478], which came[H935] into Egypt[H4714]; every man[H376] and his household[H1004]came[H935] with Jacob[H3290].
2Reuben[H7205], Simeon[H8095], Levi[H3878], and Judah[H3063],
3Issachar[H3485], Zebulun[H2074], and Benjamin[H1144],
4Dan[H1835], and Naphtali[H5321], Gad[H1410], and Asher[H836].
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And all the souls[H5315] that came out[H3318] of the loins[H3409] of Jacob[H3290] were seventy[H7657]souls[H5315]: for Joseph[H3130] was in Egypt[H4714] already.
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And Joseph[H3130]died[H4191], and all his brethren[H251], and all that generation[H1755].
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And the children[H1121] of Israel[H3478] were fruitful[H6509], and increased abundantly[H8317], and multiplied[H7235], and waxed exceeding[H3966]mighty[H6105]; and the land[H776] was filled[H4390] with them.
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Now there arose up[H6965] a new[H2319]king[H4428] over Egypt[H4714], which knew[H3045] not Joseph[H3130].
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And he said[H559] unto his people[H5971], Behold, the people[H5971] of the children[H1121] of Israel[H3478] are more[H7227] and mightier[H6099] than we:
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Come on[H3051], let us deal wisely[H2449] with them; lest they[H1931]multiply[H7235], and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out[H7122] any war[H4421], they[H1931]join[H3254] also unto our enemies[H8130], and fight[H3898] against us, and so get them up[H5927]out[H7122] of the land[H776].
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Therefore they did set[H7760] over them taskmasters[H4522] to afflict[H6031] them with their burdens[H5450]. And they built[H1129] for Pharaoh[H6547]treasure[H4543]cities[H5892], Pithom[H6619] and Raamses[H7486].
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But the more[H3651] they afflicted[H6031] them, the more[H3651] they multiplied[H7235] and grew[H6555]. And they were grieved[H6973]because[H6440] of the children[H1121] of Israel[H3478].
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And the Egyptians[H4714]made[H5647] the children[H1121] of Israel[H3478] to serve[H5647] with rigour[H6531]:
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And they made[H4843] their lives[H2416]bitter[H4843] with hard[H7186]bondage[H5656], in morter[H2563], and in brick[H3843], and in all manner of service[H5656] in the field[H7704]: all their service[H5656], wherein they made[H4843] them serve[H5647], was with rigour[H6531].
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And the king[H4428] of Egypt[H4714]spake[H559] to the Hebrew[H5680]midwives[H3205], of which the name[H8034] of the one[H259] was Shiphrah[H8236], and the name[H8034] of the other[H8145]Puah[H6326]:
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And he said[H559], When ye do the office of a midwife[H3205] to the Hebrew women[H5680], and see[H7200] them upon the stools[H70]; if it be a son[H1121], then ye shall kill[H4191] him: but if it be a daughter[H1323], then she shall live[H2425].
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But the midwives[H3205]feared[H3372]God[H430], and did[H6213] not as the king[H4428] of Egypt[H4714]commanded[H1696] them, but saved[H2421] the men children[H3206]alive[H2421].
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And the king[H4428] of Egypt[H4714]called[H7121] for the midwives[H3205], and said[H559] unto them, Why[H4069] have ye done[H6213] this thing[H1697], and have saved[H2421] the men children[H3206]alive?[H2421]
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And the midwives[H3205]said[H559] unto Pharaoh[H6547], Because the Hebrew[H5680]women[H802] are not as the Egyptian women[H4713]; for they are lively[H2422], and are delivered[H3205]ere[H2962] the midwives[H3205] come in[H935] unto them.
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Therefore God[H430] dealt well[H3190] with the midwives[H3205]: and the people[H5971]multiplied[H7235], and waxed very[H3966]mighty[H6105].
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And it came to pass, because the midwives[H3205]feared[H3372]God[H430], that he made[H6213] them houses[H1004].
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And Pharaoh[H6547]charged[H6680] all his people[H5971], saying[H559], Every son[H1121] that is born[H3209] ye shall cast[H7993] into the river[H2975], and every daughter[H1323] ye shall save alive[H2421].