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\v 1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:
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\v 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
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\v 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
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\v 4 Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
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\v 5 Everyone who came out of the thigh of Jacob were seventy in number. Joseph was already in Egypt.
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\v 6 Then Joseph, all his brothers, and all that generation died.
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\v 7 The Israelites were fruitful, increased greatly in numbers, and became very strong; the land was filled with them.
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\v 8 Then a new king arose over Egypt, who did not care for the memory of Joseph.
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\v 9 He said to his people, "Look at the Israelites; they are more numerous and stronger than we are.
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\v 10 Come, let us deal wisely with them. Otherwise they will continue to multiply, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the land."
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\v 11 So they put taskmasters over them to oppress them with hard labor. The Israelites built store cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Rameses.
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\v 12 But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more the Israelites increased in numbers and spread. So the Egyptians began to dread the Israelites.
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\v 13 The Egyptians made the Israelites work rigorously.
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\v 14 They made their lives bitter with hard service with mortar and brick, and with all kinds of work in the fields. All their required work was hard.
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\v 15 Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives; the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the other Puah.
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\v 16 He said, "When you assist the Hebrew women on the birthstool, observe when they give birth. If the baby is male, then you must kill him; but if it is female, then she may live."
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\v 17 But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt ordered them; instead, they let the male babies live.
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\v 18 The king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, "Why have you let the male babies live?"
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\v 19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, "The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; they are vigorous and have finished giving birth before a midwife comes to them."
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\v 20 God protected these midwives. The people increased in numbers and became very strong.
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\v 21 Because the midwives feared God, he made families for them.
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\v 22 Pharaoh ordered all his people, "You must throw every male that is born into the river, but you may let live every female."
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