1 Haec sunt nomina filiorum Israhel
qui ingressi sunt Aegyptum cum Iacob
singuli cum domibus suis introierunt
2 Ruben Symeon Levi Iuda
3 Isachar Zabulon et Beniamin
4 Dan et Nepthalim Gad et Aser
5 erant igitur omnes animae eorum qui egressi sunt de
femore Iacob septuaginta
Ioseph autem in Aegypto erat
6 quo mortuo et universis fratribus eius omnique cognatione illa
7 filii Israhel creverunt et quasi germinantes multiplicati sunt
ac roborati nimis impleverunt terram
8 surrexit interea rex novus super Aegyptum
qui ignorabat Ioseph
9 et ait ad populum suum
ecce populus filiorum Israhel multus et fortior nobis
10 venite sapienter opprimamus eum ne forte multiplicetur
et si ingruerit contra nos bellum
addatur inimicis nostris
expugnatisque nobis egrediatur e terra
11 praeposuit itaque eis magistros operum ut adfligerent eos oneribus
aedificaveruntque urbes tabernaculorum Pharaoni Phiton et Ramesses
12 quantoque opprimebant eos
tanto magis multiplicabantur et crescebant
13 oderantque filios Israhel Aegyptii et adfligebant inludentes eis
14 atque ad amaritudinem perducebant vitam eorum
operibus duris luti et lateris
omnique famulatu quo in terrae operibus premebantur
15 dixit autem rex Aegypti obsetricibus Hebraeorum
quarum una vocabatur Sephra altera Phua
16 praecipiens eis
quando obsetricabitis Hebraeas et partus tempus advenerit
si masculus fuerit interficite illum si femina reservate
17 timuerunt autem obsetrices Deum
et non fecerunt iuxta praeceptum regis Aegypti
sed conservabant mares
18 quibus ad se accersitis rex ait
quidnam est hoc quod facere voluistis
ut pueros servaretis
19 quae responderunt non sunt hebraeae sicut aegyptiae mulieres
ipsae enim obsetricandi habent scientiam
et priusquam veniamus ad eas pariunt
20 bene ergo fecit Deus obsetricibus
et crevit populus confortatusque est nimis
21 et quia timuerant obsetrices Deum
aedificavit illis domos
22 praecepit autem Pharao omni populo suo dicens
quicquid masculini sexus natum fuerit in flumen proicite
quicquid feminei reservate
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.