Exodus

                                    Chapter 1

  1. Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which
     came into Egypt; every man and his household came with
     Jacob.
  2. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
  3. Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
  4. Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, 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. And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that
     generation.
  7. And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased
     abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and
     the land was filled with them.
  8. Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not
     Joseph.
  9. And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the
     children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
 10. Come on, 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.
 11. Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them
     with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure
     cities, Pithom and Raamses.
 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 their lives bitter with hard bondage, in
     morter, and in brick, 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, 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 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 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.
 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.

                                    Chapter 2

  1. And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife
     a daughter of Levi.
  2. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw
     him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
  3. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an
     ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch,
     and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by
     the river's brink.
  4. And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to
     him.
  5. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the
     river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and
     when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to
     fetch it.
  6. And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold,
     the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This
     is one of the Hebrews' children.
  7. Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and
     call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse
     the child for thee?
  8. And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went
     and called the child's mother.
  9. And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away,
     and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the
     women took the child, and nursed it.
 10. And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's
     daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name
     Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.