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title: Exodus 1
slug: kjv/exodus-1
createdAt: 2024-07-17T02:04:23.542Z
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**1 **Now these *are* the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. **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: for 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 up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. **9 **And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel *are* more and mightier than we: **10 **Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and *so* 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 treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. **12 **But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved 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 bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, *was* with rigour.

**15 **And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which 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, and see *them* upon the stools; 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 midwives come in unto them. **20 **Therefore 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.