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Exodus 1 :: New International Version (NIV)

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The Israelites Oppressed

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:1 - These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:

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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 - The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy[fn] in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:7 - but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:8 - Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:9 - “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:10 - Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:11 - So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:12 - But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:13 - and worked them ruthlessly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14 - They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:15 - The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:16 - “When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:17 - The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:18 - Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:19 - The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:20 - So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:21 - And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:22 - Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.”
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NIV Footnotes
Masoretic Text (see also Gen. 46:27); Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint (see also Acts 7:14 and note at Gen. 46:27) seventy-five
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Exodus Chapter 1 — Additional Translations:

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