New American Standard Bible 2020

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. 5 3All the people who descended from Jacob were 4seventy 5people, but Joseph was already in Egypt. 6And 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. 9And 11he said to his people, “Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are 12too many and too mighty for us. 10Come, let us 13deal 14shrewdly with them, otherwise they will multiply, and 15in the event of war, they will also join those who hate us, and fight against us and 16depart from the land.” 11So they appointed 17taskmasters over them to oppress them with 18 19hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh 20storage cities, Pithom and 21Raamses. 12But the more they oppressed them, 22the more they multiplied and the more they 23spread out, so that they dreaded the sons of Israel. 13The Egyptians 24used violence to compel the sons of Israel 25to labor; 14and they made 26their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they violently had them perform as slaves.

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Notes

1. Exodus 1:1 Gen 46:8-27 ↩
2. Exodus 1:1 Lit and ↩
3. Exodus 1:5 Lit Every soul ↩
4. Exodus 1:5 Gen 46:26, 27; Deut 10:22 ↩
5. Exodus 1:5 Lit 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 more and mightier than we ↩
13. Exodus 1:10 Acts 7:19 ↩
14. Exodus 1:10 Or wisely ↩
15. Exodus 1:10 Lit it will come about when war occurs that ↩
16. Exodus 1:10 Lit go up from ↩
17. Exodus 1:11 Gen 15:13; Ex 3:7; 5:6 ↩
18. Exodus 1:11 Lit their burdens ↩
19. Exodus 1:11 Ex 1:14; 2:11; 5:4-9; 6:6f ↩
20. Exodus 1:11 1 Kin 9:19; 2 Chr 8:4 ↩
21. Exodus 1:11 Gen 47:11 ↩
22. Exodus 1:12 Ex 1:7 ↩
23. Exodus 1:12 Lit broke forth ↩
24. Exodus 1:13 Lit with violence compelled ↩
25. Exodus 1:13 Gen 15:13; Deut 4:20 ↩
26. Exodus 1:14 Ex 2:23; 6:9; Num 20:15; Acts 7:19 ↩

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