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שמות
EXODUS
CHAPTER 1
1 Now these are the names of the sons of
Israel, who came into Egypt with Jacob;
every man came with his household: 2
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; 3
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; 4 Dan and
Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5 And all the
souls that came out of the loins of Jacob
were seventy souls; and Joseph was in
Egypt already. 6 And Joseph died, and all
his brethren, and all that generation. 7
And the children of Israel were fruitful,
and increased abundantly, and multiplied,
and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land
was filled with them.
8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt,
who knew not Joseph. 9 And he said unto
his people: 'Behold, the people of the
children of Israel are too many and too
mighty for us; 10 come, let us deal wisely
with them, lest they multiply, and it come
to pass, that, when there befalleth us any
war, they also join themselves unto our
enemies, and fight against us, and get
them up out of the land.' 11 Therefore
they did set over them taskmasters to
afflict them with their burdens. And they
built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and
Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted
them, the more they multiplied and the
more they spread abroad. And they were
adread because of the children of Israel.
13 And the Egyptians made the children of
Israel to serve with rigour. 14 And they
made their lives bitter with hard service,
in mortar and in brick, and in all manner
of service in the field; in all their
service, wherein they made them serve with
rigour.
15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the
Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the
one was Shiphrah, and the name of the
other Puah; 16 and he said: 'When ye do
the office of a midwife to the Hebrew
women, ye shall look upon the birthstool:
if it be a son, then ye shall kill him;
but if it be a daughter, then she shall
live.' 17 But the midwives feared God, and
did not as the king of Egypt commanded
them, but saved the men-children alive. 18
And the king of Egypt called for the
midwives, and said unto them: 'Why have ye
done this thing, and have saved the
men-children alive?' 19 And the midwives
said unto Pharaoh: 'Because the Hebrew
women are not as the Egyptian women; for
they are lively, and are delivered ere the
midwife come unto them.' 20 And God dealt
well with the midwives; and the people
multiplied, and waxed very mighty. 21 And
it came to pass, because the midwives
feared God, that He made them houses. 22
And Pharaoh charged all his people,
saying: 'Every son that is born ye shall
cast into the river, and every daughter ye
shall save alive.' |
