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EXODUS
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Chapter 1
Exod AB 1:1  These are the names of the sons of Israel that came into Egypt, together with Jacob their father. They came in each with their whole family.
Exod AB 1:5  But Joseph was in Egypt. And all the souls born of Jacob were seventy-five.
Exod AB 1:6  And Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.
Exod AB 1:7  And the children of Israel increased and multiplied, and became numerous and grew exceedingly strong, and the land multiplied them.
Exod AB 1:8  And there arose up another king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
Exod AB 1:9  And he said to his nation, Behold, the race of the children of Israel is a great multitude, and is stronger than we!
Exod AB 1:10  Come then, let us deal craftily with them, lest at any time they be increased, and whenever war shall happen to us, these also shall be added to our enemies, and having prevailed against us in war, they will depart out of the land.
Exod AB 1:11  And he set over them taskmasters, who should afflict them in their works; and they built strong cities for Pharaoh, both Pithom, and Raamses, and On, which is Heliopolis.
Exod AB 1:12  But as they humbled them, by so much they multiplied, and grew exceedingly strong. And the Egyptians greatly abhorred the children of Israel.
Exod AB 1:13  And the Egyptians tyrannized over the children of Israel by force.
Exod AB 1:14  And they embittered their life by hard labors, in the clay and in brick-making, and all the works in the plains, according to all the works, wherein they caused them to serve with violence.
Exod AB 1:15  And the king of the Egyptians spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews. The name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the second was Puah.
Exod AB 1:16  And he said, When you do the duties of midwife to the Hebrew women, and they are about to be delivered, if it be a male, kill it; but if a female, save it.
Exod AB 1:17  But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt appointed them; and they saved the male children alive.
Exod AB 1:18  And the king of Egypt called the midwives, and said to them, Why is it that you have done this thing, and saved the male children alive?
Exod AB 1:19  And the midwives said to Pharaoh, The Hebrew women are not as the women of Egypt, for they are delivered before the midwives go in to them. So they bore children.
Exod AB 1:20  And God did well to the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very strong.
Exod AB 1:21  And as the midwives feared God, they established for themselves families.
Exod AB 1:22  And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Whatever male child shall be born to the Hebrews, cast into the river; and every female, save it alive.