1And these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Mizraim with Jakob; (each) man with the men of his house they came in:
2Reuben, Shimeon, Levi and Jehudah,
3Issakar, Zebulon and Benyamin,
4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
5And all the souls that came forth from the thigh of Jakob were seventy souls, with Joseph who was in Mizraim.
6And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation;
7But the sons of Israel increased and propagated, and became great and very mighty, and the land was filled with them.
8But a new king arose over Mizraim who did not hold valid (or confirm) the decree of Joseph.
9And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are more numerous and stronger than we:
10Come, let us deal wisely by them, lest they multiply, and it be that should war happen to us they join themselves with our enemies, and break forth in the war against us, and go up from the land.
11And they appointed over them evildoing governors (shiltonin) to afflict them in their labours. And they builded cities of treasure houses for Pharoh, Pithom, and Raamsas.
12But by as much as they afflicted them, so they increased and waxed strong, and the Mizraee had vexation on account of the sons of Israel;
13And the Mizraee made the sons of Israel serve with rigour,
14and embittered their lives with hard labour, in clay and in brick, and in all labour of the field, all the work which they wrought, they made them do with hardship.
15And the king of Mizraim spake to the midwives of Jewesses, (Yehuditha,) of whom the name of the one was Shiphra, and the name of the second Puvah;
16And he said, When you do the office of the midwife among the Jewish women, and you look upon the childbirth, if it be a son, you shall kill him; but if a daughter, let her live.
17But the midwives feared before the Lord, and did not act as the king of Mizraim had bidden them, but preserved the sons alive.
18And the king of Mizraim called
19The midwives said to Pharoh, It is because the Jewesses are unlike the Mizraite women; they are cunning, and give birth before the midwives come to them.
20And the Lord did good to the midwives; and the people multiplied and became strong.
21And because the midwives feared before the Lord He made for them houses.
22But Pharoh commanded all his people, saying, Every son who is born to the Jews you shall throw into the river, and every daughter you shall keep alive.
