Exodus, Chapter 1
Chapter 1
1706 B.C.[1]
1662 B.C.[2]
1 Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.[3]
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
4 Dan[4], and Naphtali, Gad[5], and Asher.
5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.[6]
6 And Joseph died[7], and all his brethren, and all that generation.[8]
7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.[9]
8 Now there arose up a new king[10] over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.[11]
9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:[12]
10 Come on[13], let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.[14]
11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters[15] to afflict them with their burdens[16]. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom[17] and Raamses[18][19].
12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
14 And they made[20] their lives bitter with hard bondage, [21]in morter, and in brick[22], and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
17 But the midwives feared God[23], and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
19 And[24] the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
20 Therefore God dealt well[25] with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.[26]
22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
Footnotes
- ↑ after Bishop James Ussher
- ↑ According to current historical and archaeological research.
- ↑ Gen 46:8, Exo 6:14
- ↑ Num 26:42
- ↑ Num 26:15
- ↑ Gen 46:26, Deu 10:22
- ↑ Gen 50:26, Act 7:15
- ↑ Ecc 1:4
- ↑ Gen 46:3, Deu 26:5, Psa 105:24, Act 7:17
- ↑ Amenemhet I, founder of the Egyptian 12th dynasty
- ↑ p.p. Act 7:18
- ↑ Psa 105:24
- ↑ Psa 83:3, Psa 10:2
- ↑ Act 7:19, Pro 28:16, Job 5:13
- ↑ Gen 15:13, Exo 3:7
- ↑ Exo 2:11, Exo 5:4-5, Pro 27:3, Psa 81:6
- ↑ the Hebrew word is based upon the Egyptian pr-jtm, "house of Atum"; also known by the Greek name Ηρώ πόλις, Heroöpolis
- ↑ Gen 47:11
- ↑ the Hebrew word is based upon the Egyptian: pr-rꜥmssw, "house of Ramesses", in reference to Ramesses II of the 19th dynasty making the area his capitol. "Raamses" is the later name given to the site of Zoan/Avaris (known today as Tell el-Daba[1]), the store city built by the enslaved Hebrews in Goshen, and later occupied by the Hyksos.
- ↑ Pro 14:31, Psa 10:17-18, Job 20:19, Num 20:15, Lev 25:17, Lev 25:14, Exo 22:21, Exo 2:23
- ↑ Psa 81:6
- ↑ Mudbrick was used extensively as building material during this period; the "Black Pyramid" of Amenemhat III was composed of a core of mudbrick, clad in a polished limestone casing.[2]
- ↑ Pro 16:6, Dan 3:16,18, Dan 6:13, Act 5:29
- ↑ 2 Sam 17:19-20, Jos 2:4
- ↑ Pro 11:18, Ecc 8:12, Isa 3:10, Heb 6:10
- ↑ 1 Sam 2:35, 2 Sam 7:11,13, 2 Sam 7:27,29, 1 Kin 2:24, 1 Kin 11:38, Psa 127:1
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