New American Standard Bible 1995

Exodus 1:1-14

1Now these are the 1names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; they came each one 2with his household: 2Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah; 3Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin; 4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5All the 3persons who came from the loins of Jacob were 4seventy 5in number, but Joseph was already in Egypt. 6 6Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation. 7But the sons of Israel 7were fruitful and 8increased greatly, and multiplied, and became exceedingly 9mighty, so that the land was filled with them.

8Now a new 10king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9 11He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are 12more and mightier than we. 10Come, let us 13deal wisely with them, or else they will multiply and 14in the event of war, they will also join themselves to those who hate us, and fight against us and 15depart from the land.” 11So they appointed 16taskmasters over them to afflict them with 17 18hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh 19storage cities, Pithom and 20Raamses. 12But the more they afflicted them, 21the more they multiplied and the more they 22spread out, so that they were in dread of the sons of Israel. 13The Egyptians compelled the sons of Israel 23to labor rigorously; 14and they made 24their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they rigorously 25imposed on them.

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Notes

1. Exodus 1:1 Gen 46:8-27 ↩
2. Exodus 1:1 Lit and ↩
3. Exodus 1:5 Lit souls ↩
4. Exodus 1:5 Gen 46:26, 27; Deut 10:22 ↩
5. Exodus 1:5 Lit as to souls ↩
6. Exodus 1:6 Gen 50:26 ↩
7. Exodus 1:7 Gen 12:2; 28:3; 35:11; 46:3; 47:27; 48:4; Deut 26:5; Ps 105:24; Acts 7:17 ↩
8. Exodus 1:7 Lit swarmed ↩
9. Exodus 1:7 Or numerous ↩
10. Exodus 1:8 Acts 7:18, 19 ↩
11. Exodus 1:9 Ps 105:24, 25 ↩
12. Exodus 1:9 Or too many and too mighty for us ↩
13. Exodus 1:10 Acts 7:19 ↩
14. Exodus 1:10 Lit it came about when war befalls that ↩
15. Exodus 1:10 Lit go up from ↩
16. Exodus 1:11 Gen 15:13; Ex 3:7; 5:6 ↩
17. Exodus 1:11 Lit their burdens ↩
18. Exodus 1:11 Ex 1:14; 2:11; 5:4-9; 6:6f ↩
19. Exodus 1:11 1 Kin 9:19; 2 Chr 8:4 ↩
20. Exodus 1:11 Gen 47:11 ↩
21. Exodus 1:12 Ex 1:7 ↩
22. Exodus 1:12 Lit broke forth ↩
23. Exodus 1:13 Gen 15:13; Deut 4:20 ↩
24. Exodus 1:14 Ex 2:23; 6:9; Num 20:15; Acts 7:19 ↩
25. Exodus 1:14 Lit worked through them ↩

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