Exodus 1 — DRA
1Verse 1These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Egypt with Jacob: they went in, every man with his household:Verse 2Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,Verse 3Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin,Verse 4Dan, and Nephtali, Gad and Aser.Verse 5And all the souls that came out of Jacob’s thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.Verse 6After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,Verse 7The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.Verse 8In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph:Verse 9And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we.Verse 10Come, let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome us, depart out of the land.Verse 11Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens, and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom and Ramesses.Verse 12But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied, and increased:Verse 13And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them:Verse 14And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay, and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.Verse 15And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,Verse 16Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive.Verse 17But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.Verse 18And the king called for them and said: What is that you meant to do, that you would save the men children?Verse 19They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves are skillful in the office of a midwife; and they are delivered before we come to them.Verse 20Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.Verse 21And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.Verse 22Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of the female, ye shall save alive.