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EXODUS
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Chapter 1
Exod DRC 1:1  These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Egypt with Jacob: they went in every man with his household:
Exod DRC 1:5  And all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.
Exod DRC 1:6  After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,
Exod DRC 1:7  The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.
Exod DRC 1:8  In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph:
Exod DRC 1:9  And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we.
Exod DRC 1:10  Come let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome us, depart out of the land.
Exod DRC 1:11  Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens: and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom, and Ramesses.
Exod DRC 1:12  But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied and increased.
Exod DRC 1:13  And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them:
Exod DRC 1:14  And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.
Exod DRC 1:15  And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,
Exod DRC 1:16  Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive.
Exod DRC 1:17  But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.
Exod DRC 1:18  And the king called for them and said: What is it that you meant to do, that you would save the men children?
Exod DRC 1:19  They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves are skilful in the office of a midwife; and they are delivered before we come to them.
Exod DRC 1:20  Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.
Exod DRC 1:21  And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.
Exod DRC 1:22  Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of the female, ye shall save alive.