Thematic Bible
Exodus 1:1 (show verse)
These are the names of the children of Israel, which came to Egypt with Jacob, every man with his household:
Exodus 1:2 (show verse)
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah,
Exodus 1:3 (show verse)
Issachar, Zebulon, Benjamin,
Exodus 1:4 (show verse)
Dan, Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
Exodus 1:5 (show verse)
All the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
Exodus 1:6 (show verse)
When Joseph was dead, and all his brethren and all that generation;
Exodus 1:7 (show verse)
the children of Israel grew, increased, multiplied and waxed exceeding mighty: so that the land was full of them.
Exodus 1:8 (show verse)
Then there rose up a new king in Egypt which knew not Joseph.
Exodus 1:9 (show verse)
And he said unto his folk, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
Exodus 1:10 (show verse)
Come on, let us play wisely with them: lest they multiply, and then - if there chance any war - they join themselves unto our enemies and fight against us, and so get them out of the land."
Exodus 1:11 (show verse)
And he set taskmasters over them, to keep them under with burdens. And they built unto Pharaoh treasure cities: Pithom and Rameses.
Exodus 1:12 (show verse)
But the more they vexed them, the more they multiplied and grew: so that they abhorred the children of Israel.
Exodus 1:13 (show verse)
And the Egyptians held the children of Israel in bondage without mercy,
Exodus 1:14 (show verse)
and 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.
Exodus 1:15 (show verse)
And the king of Egypt said unto the midwives of the Hebrews' women, of which the one's name was Shiphrah and the other Puah,
Exodus 1:16 (show verse)
"When 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."
Exodus 1:17 (show verse)
Notwithstanding, the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them: but saved the men children.
Exodus 1:18 (show verse)
Then 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?"
Exodus 1:19 (show verse)
And the midwives answered Pharaoh, that the Hebrews' women were not as the women of Egypt: but were sturdy women, and were delivered yer the midwives came at them.
Exodus 1:20 (show verse)
And God therefore dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty,
Exodus 1:21 (show verse)
and - because the midwives feared God - he made them houses.
Exodus 1:22 (show verse)
Then Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, "All the men children that are born, cast into the river; and save the maid children alive."