Douay Rheims Original ↷
Exodus 1 📜 📕 ↷
Israelites Multiply in Egypt
1 THESE be the names of the children of Israel, that entered into AEgypt with Jacob: they did enter in, every one with their houses,📜💬📚
2 Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Judas,📜💬📚
3 Issachar, Zabulon, & Benjamin,📜💬📚
4 Dan, and Nephthali, Gad, and Aser.📜💬📚
5 Therefore all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh were seventy: and Joseph was in AEgypt.📜💬📚
6 Who being dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,📜💬📚
7 the children of Israel increased, and as it were springing up did multiply, and growing strong exceedingly, filled the land.📜💬📚
Oppression by a New King
8 In the mean time there arose a new king over AEgypt, that knew not Joseph:📜💬📚
9 and he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel is much, and stronger than we.📜💬📚
10 Come, let us wisely oppress the same, lest perhaps it multiply: and if there shall be any war against us, it joined with our enemies, and we being overthrown, they depart out of the land.📜💬📚
11 Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens: and they built unto Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom, and Ramesses.📜💬📚
12 And the more they did oppress them, so much the more they multiplied and increased:📜💬📚
13 and the AEgyptians hated the children of Israel, and deriding afflicted them:📜💬📚
14 and they brought their life into bitterness with the hard works of clay and brick, & with all service, wherewith they were pressed in the works of the earth.📜💬📚
15 And the king of AEgypt said to the midwives of the Hebrews, of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,📜💬📚
16 commanding them: When you shall be midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come, if it be a man-child, kill it: if a woman, reserve her.📜💬📚
17 But the midwives feared God, and did not according to the commandment of the king of AEgypt, but preserved the men-children.📜💬📚
18 To whom being called unto him, the king said: What is this that you meant to do, that you would save the men-children?📜💬📚
19 Who answered: The Hebrew women are not as the AEgyptian women: for they have the knowledge to play the midwife themselves, and before we come to them, they are delivered.📜💬📚
20 God therefore did well to the midwives: and the people increased, and became strong exceedingly.📜💬📚
21 And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.📜💬📚
22 Pharao therefore commanded all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male-sex cast it into the river: whatsoever of the female, reserve it.📜💬📚
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