Exodus 1 — WBMS
1Verse 1These be the names of the sons of Israel, that entered into Egypt with Jacob; all entered with their households;Verse 2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah,Verse 3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,Verse 4Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.Verse 5Therefore all the souls of them that went out of the hip of Jacob were seventy and five. Forsooth Joseph was in Egypt;Verse 6and when he was dead, and all his brethren, and all his kindred,Verse 7the sons of Israel+increased, and were multiplied as burgeoning, and they were made strong greatly, and filled the land.Verse 8A new king, that knew not Joseph, rose [up] in the meantime on Egypt,Verse 9and said to his people, Lo! the people of the sons of Israel is much, and stronger than we;Verse 10come ye, wisely oppress we it, lest peradventure it be multiplied; and lest, if battle riseth against us, it be added to our enemies, and go out of the land, when we be overcome.Verse 11And so he made masters of works sovereigns to them, that they should torment them with charges. And they made [the] cities of tabernacles, either of treasures, as it is in Hebrew, to Pharaoh, Pithom, and Raamses.Verse 12And by how much they oppressed them, by so much they were multiplied, and increased the more.Verse 13And the Egyptians hated the sons of Israel, and tormented, and scorned them;Verse 14and they brought their life to bitterness, by hard works of clay and of tilestone, and by all servage, by which they were oppressed in the works of [the] earth.Verse 15Forsooth the king of Egypt said to the midwives of Hebrews, of which one was called Shiphrah, [and] the tother Puah;Verse 16and he commanded to them, When ye shall do the office of midwives to [the] Hebrew women, and the time of child-bearing shall come, if it is a knave child, slay ye him; if it is a woman child, keep ye it.Verse 17But the midwives dreaded God, and did not by the commandment of the king of Egypt, but kept the knave children.Verse 18To the which called to him, the king said, What is this thing that ye would do, that ye would keep the knave children?Verse 19The which answered, Hebrew women be not as the women of Egypt, for they have knowing of the craft of midwifing, and childed before that we come to them.Verse 20Therefore God did well to the midwives; and the people increased, and was comforted greatly.Verse 21And for the midwives dreaded God, God builded them houses.Verse 22Therefore Pharaoh commanded all his people, and said, Whatever thing of male kind is born to Hebrews, cast ye into the flood; whatever thing of women kind, keep ye.