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Exodus 1 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Israel’s Suffering in Egypt
Israel’s Suffering in Egypt

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:1 - Now these are the names of the children of Israel who came to Egypt; each man and his household came with Jacob:

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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, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:5 - All those who were descendants[fn] of Jacob were seventy[fn] persons (for Joseph was in Egypt already).

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:7 - But the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, multiplied and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:8 - Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:9 - And he said to his people, “Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:10 - “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 so go up out of the land.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:11 - Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:12 - But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:13 - So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14 - 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 was with rigor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:15 - Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:16 - and he said, “When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:17 - But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.

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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 saved the male children alive?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:19 - And the midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are lively and give birth before the midwives come to them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:20 - Therefore God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very mighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:21 - And so it was, because the midwives feared God, that He provided households for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:22 - So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born[fn] you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”
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NKJV Footnotes
Literally who came from the loins of
Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint read seventy-five (compare Acts 7:14).
Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Targum add to the Hebrews.
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Exodus Chapter 1 — Additional Translations:

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