en_wbms - Exo 1 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ These be the names of the sons of Israel, that entered into Egypt with Jacob; all entered with their households;

² Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah,

³ Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

⁴ Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

⁵ Therefore all the souls of them that went out of the hip of Jacob were seventy and five. Forsooth Joseph was in Egypt;

⁶ and when he was dead, and all his brethren, and all his kindred,

⁷ the sons of Israel[1] increased, and were multiplied as burgeoning, and they were made strong greatly, and filled the land.

⁸ A new king, that knew not Joseph, rose [up] in the meantime on Egypt,

⁹ and said to his people, Lo! the people of the sons of Israel is much, and stronger than we;

¹⁰ come ye, wisely oppress we it, lest peradventure it be multiplied; and lest, if battle riseth against us, it be added to our enemies, and go out of the land, when we be overcome.

¹¹ And so he made masters of works sovereigns to them, that they should torment them with charges. And they made [the] cities of tabernacles, either of treasures, as it is in Hebrew, to Pharaoh, Pithom, and Raamses.

¹² And by how much they oppressed them, by so much they were multiplied, and increased the more.

¹³ And the Egyptians hated the sons of Israel, and tormented, and scorned them;

¹⁴ and they brought their life to bitterness, by hard works of clay and of tilestone, and by all servage, by which they were oppressed in the works of [the] earth.

¹⁵ Forsooth the king of Egypt said to the midwives of Hebrews, of which one was called Shiphrah, [and] the tother Puah;

¹⁶ and he commanded to them, When ye shall do the office of midwives to [the] Hebrew women, and the time of child-bearing shall come, if it is a knave child, slay ye him; if it is a woman child, keep ye it.

¹⁷ But the midwives dreaded God, and did not by the commandment of the king of Egypt, but kept the knave children.

¹⁸ To the which called to him, the king said, What is this thing that ye would do, that ye would keep the knave children?

¹⁹ The which answered, Hebrew women be not as the women of Egypt, for they have knowing of the craft of midwifing, and childed before that we come to them.

²⁰ Therefore God did well to the midwives; and the people increased, and was comforted greatly.

²¹ And for the midwives dreaded God, God builded them houses.

²² Therefore Pharaoh commanded all his people, and said, Whatever thing of male kind is born to Hebrews, cast ye into the flood; whatever thing of women kind, keep ye.