Thematic Bible
Exodus 1:1 (show verse)
Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):
Exodus 1:2 (show verse)
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Exodus 1:3 (show verse)
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
Exodus 1:4 (show verse)
Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
Exodus 1:5 (show verse)
All the souls who came out of Jacob's body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
Exodus 1:6 (show verse)
Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.
Exodus 1:7 (show verse)
The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
Exodus 1:8 (show verse)
Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn't know Joseph.
Exodus 1:9 (show verse)
He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
Exodus 1:10 (show verse)
Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land."
Exodus 1:11 (show verse)
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
Exodus 1:12 (show verse)
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.
Exodus 1:13 (show verse)
The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,
Exodus 1:14 (show verse)
and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
Exodus 1:15 (show verse)
The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,
Exodus 1:16 (show verse)
and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live."
Exodus 1:17 (show verse)
But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
Exodus 1:18 (show verse)
The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?"
Exodus 1:19 (show verse)
The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them."
Exodus 1:20 (show verse)
God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
Exodus 1:21 (show verse)
It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.
Exodus 1:22 (show verse)
Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."