Exodus 1 (NET)

Exodus 1:1¹These are the names of the sons of Israel who entered Egypt—each man with his household entered with Jacob:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 1:2²Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 1:3³Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 1:4⁴Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 1:5⁵All the people who were directly descended from Jacob numbered seventy. But Joseph was already in Egypt,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 1:6⁶and in time Joseph and his brothers and all that generation died.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 1:7⁷The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 1:8⁸Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power over Egypt.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 1:9⁹He said to his people, “Look at the Israelite people, more numerous and stronger than we are!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 1:10¹⁰Come, let’s deal wisely with them. Otherwise they will continue to multiply, and if a war breaks out, they will ally themselves with our enemies and fight against us and leave the country.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 1:11¹¹So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 1:12¹²But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. As a result the Egyptians loathed the Israelites,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 1:13¹³and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 1:14¹⁴They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 1:15¹⁵The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 1:16¹⁶“When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 1:17¹⁷But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 1:18¹⁸Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this and let the boys live?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 1:19¹⁹The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women—for the Hebrew women are vigorous; they give birth before the midwife gets to them!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 1:20²⁰So God treated the midwives well, and the people multiplied and became very strong.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 1:21²¹And because the midwives feared God, he made households for them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Exodus 1:22²²Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions