New American Standard Bible 2020

Exodus 1:9-16

9And 1he said to his people, “Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are 2too many and too mighty for us. 10Come, let us 3deal 4shrewdly with them, otherwise they will multiply, and 5in the event of war, they will also join those who hate us, and fight against us and 6depart from the land.” 11So they appointed 7taskmasters over them to oppress them with 8 9hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh 10storage cities, Pithom and 11Raamses. 12But the more they oppressed them, 12the more they multiplied and the more they 13spread out, so that they dreaded the sons of Israel. 13The Egyptians 14used violence to compel the sons of Israel 15to labor; 14and they made 16their 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.

15Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom 17was named Shiphrah, and the other 18was named Puah; 16and he said, “When you are helping the Hebrew women to give birth and see them upon the birthstool, 19if it is a son, then you shall put him to death; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

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Notes

1. Exodus 1:9 Ps 105:24, 25 ↩
2. Exodus 1:9 Or more and mightier than we ↩
3. Exodus 1:10 Acts 7:19 ↩
4. Exodus 1:10 Or wisely ↩
5. Exodus 1:10 Lit it will come about when war occurs that ↩
6. Exodus 1:10 Lit go up from ↩
7. Exodus 1:11 Gen 15:13; Ex 3:7; 5:6 ↩
8. Exodus 1:11 Lit their burdens ↩
9. Exodus 1:11 Ex 1:14; 2:11; 5:4-9; 6:6f ↩
10. Exodus 1:11 1 Kin 9:19; 2 Chr 8:4 ↩
11. Exodus 1:11 Gen 47:11 ↩
12. Exodus 1:12 Ex 1:7 ↩
13. Exodus 1:12 Lit broke forth ↩
14. Exodus 1:13 Lit with violence compelled ↩
15. Exodus 1:13 Gen 15:13; Deut 4:20 ↩
16. Exodus 1:14 Ex 2:23; 6:9; Num 20:15; Acts 7:19 ↩
17. Exodus 1:15 Lit the name was ↩
18. Exodus 1:15 Lit the name was ↩
19. Exodus 1:16 Acts 7:19 ↩

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