# Exodus 1

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

## Text

[1] These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family: [2] Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; [3] Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; [4] Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher. [5] The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt. [6] Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, [7] but the Israelites were fruitful and increased rapidly; they multiplied and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them. [8] Then a new king, who did not know Joseph, came to power in Egypt. [9] “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us. [10] Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.” [11] So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. [12] But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites. [13] They worked the Israelites ruthlessly [14] and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh. [15] Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, [16] “When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.” [17] The midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had instructed; they let the boys live. [18] So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?” [19] The midwives answered Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife arrives.” [20] So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became even more numerous. [21] And because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own. [22] Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”

## Places in this chapter

- **Pithom** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/pithom
- **Egypt** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/egypt
- **Nile** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/nile
- **Rameses** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/rameses

## Each verse

- Exodus 1:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/1
- Exodus 1:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/2
- Exodus 1:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/3
- Exodus 1:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/4
- Exodus 1:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/5
- Exodus 1:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/6
- Exodus 1:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/7
- Exodus 1:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/8
- Exodus 1:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/9
- Exodus 1:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/10
- Exodus 1:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/11
- Exodus 1:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/12
- Exodus 1:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/13
- Exodus 1:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/14
- Exodus 1:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/15
- Exodus 1:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/16
- Exodus 1:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/17
- Exodus 1:18 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/18
- Exodus 1:19 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/19
- Exodus 1:20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/20
- Exodus 1:21 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/21
- Exodus 1:22 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/1/22