Exodus Chapter 1

• Exodus 1:1
  Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):
• Exodus 1:2
  Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
• Exodus 1:3
  Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
• Exodus 1:4
  Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
• Exodus 1:5
  All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
• Exodus 1:6
  Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.
• Exodus 1:7
  The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
• Exodus 1:8
  Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.
• Exodus 1:9
  He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
• Exodus 1:10
  Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight ...
• Exodus 1:11
  Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
• Exodus 1:12
  But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.
• Exodus 1:13
  The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,
• Exodus 1:14
  and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ...
• Exodus 1:15
  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,
• Exodus 1:16
  and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; bu...
• Exodus 1:17
  But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
• Exodus 1:18
  The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing and saved the boys alive?”
• Exodus 1:19
  The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes ...
• Exodus 1:20
  God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
• Exodus 1:21
  Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
• Exodus 1:22
  Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”