Exodus
1:1 Now these [are] the names of the children
of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
1:4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were
seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt [already].
1:6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that
generation.
1:7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased
abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled
with them.
1:8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not
Joseph.
1:9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the
children of Israel [are] more and mightier than we:
1:10 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.
1:11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict
them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and
Raamses.
1:12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they
multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
1:13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve
with rigour:
1:14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in
mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their
service, wherein they made them serve, [was] with rigour.
1:15 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:
1:16 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.
1:17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of
Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
1:18 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?
1:19 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.
1:20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the
people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
1:21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God,
that he made them houses.
1:22 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.
Exodus
2:2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and
when she saw him that he [was a] goodly [child], she hid him three months.
2:3
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.
2:4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done
to him.
2:5 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.
2:6 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.
2:7 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?
2:8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went
and called the child's mother.
2:9 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 woman took
the child, and nursed it.
2:10 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.
Numbers 12:3 (Now the man Moses [was] very meek, above all the men which [were] upon the face of the earth.)
Numbers 26:59 And the name of Amram's wife [was] Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom [her mother] bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
