1These are the names of the children of Israel, which came to Egypt with Jacob, every man with his household:
2Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,
3Isachar, Zabulon, Ben Jamin,
4Dan, Nephtali, Gad and Aser.
5All the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob, were seventy, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
6When Joseph was dead and all his brethren and all that generation:
7the children of Israel grew, increased, multiplied and waxed exceeding mighty: so that the land was full of them.
8Then there rose up a new king in Egypt which knew not Joseph.
9And he said unto his folk: behold the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
10Come on, let us play wisely with them: lest they multiply, and then (if there chance any war) they join them selves unto our enemies and fight against us, and so get them out of the land.
11And he set taskmasters over them, to keep them under with burthens. And they built unto Pharao treasure cities: Phiton and Raamses.
12But the more they vexed them, the more they multiplied and grew: so that they abhorred the children of Israel.
13And the Egyptians held the children of Israel in bondage without mercy,
14and made their lives bitter unto them with cruel labour in clay and brick, and all manner work in the fields, and in all manner of service, which they caused them to work cruelly.
15And the king of Egypt said unto the midwives of the Hebrews' women, of which the one's name was Sephora and the other Phua:
16when ye midwife the women of the Hebrews and see in the birth time that it is a boy, kill it. But if it be a maid, let it live.
17Notwithstanding the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them: but saved the men children.
18Then the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said unto them: why have ye dealt on this manner and have saved the men children?
19And the midwives answered Pharao, that the Hebrews' women were not as the women of Egypt: but were sturdy women, and were delivered yer the midwives came at them.
20And God therefore dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied and waxed very mighty.
21And because the midwives feared God, he made them houses.
22Then Pharao charged all his people saying: All the men children that are born, cast into the river and save the maid children alive.