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Exodus 1 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Israel Multiplies in Egypt

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Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; they came each one [fn]with his household:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:2 - Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:3 - Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:4 - Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:5 - And all the [fn]persons who came from the loins of Jacob were seventy [fn]in number, but Joseph was already in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:6 - Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:7 - But the sons of Israel were fruitful and [fn]increased and multiplied and became exceedingly [fn]mighty, so that the land was filled with them.

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And a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:9 - And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are [fn]more and mightier than we.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:10 - “Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply and it be [fn]in the event of war, that they also join themselves to those who hate us and fight against us and go up from the land.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:11 - So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with [fn]hard labors. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:12 - But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they [fn]spread out, so that they were in dread of the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:13 - So the Egyptians brutally compelled the sons of Israel to slave labor;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14 - and they made their lives bitter with [fn]hard slave labor in mortar and bricks and in all kinds of slave labor in the field, all their slave labor which they brutally [fn]compelled them to do.

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Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom [fn]was named Shiphrah and the other [fn]was named Puah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:16 - and he said, “When you are helping the Hebrew women to give birth and see them upon the birthstool, if it is a son, then you shall put him to death; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:17 - But the midwives [fn]feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had spoken to them, but let the boys live.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:18 - So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and let the boys live?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:19 - Then the midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife can come to them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:20 - So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became very [fn]mighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:21 - Now it happened that because the midwives [fn]feared God, He made [fn]households for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:22 - And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born [fn]you are to cast into the Nile, and every daughter you are to keep alive.”
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Lit and
Lit souls
Lit as to souls
Lit swarmed, cf. Gen 1:21; Ex 8:2
Or numerous
Or too many and too mighty for us
Lit when war befalls that
Lit their burdens
Lit broke forth
Lit stiff
Lit worked through them
Lit the name was
Lit the name was
Or reverenced
Or numerous
Or reverenced
Or families
Some versions insert to the Hebrews
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Exodus Chapter 1 — Additional Translations:

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