Exodus 1

1Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):Cross-references: Gen 29:31 · Gen 35:18 · Gen 35:23 · Gen 46:8 · Gen 49:3 · Ex 6:14 · +4 more

2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,Cross-references: Gen 35:22

3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,Cross-references: Gen 35:23 · Ex 28:20

4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

5All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.Cross-references: Gen 46:26 · Ex 1:20 · Deut 10:22 · Judg 8:30

6Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.Cross-references: Gen 50:24 · Gen 50:26 · Acts 7:14

7The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.Cross-references: Gen 1:20 · Gen 1:28 · Gen 9:1 · Gen 12:2 · Gen 13:16 · Gen 15:5 · +17 more

8Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.Cross-references: Eccl 2:18 · Eccl 9:15 · Acts 7:18

9He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.Cross-references: Num 22:4 · Job 5:2 · Ps 105:24 · Prov 14:28 · Prov 27:4 · Eccl 4:4 · +3 more

10Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”Cross-references: Num 22:6 · Job 5:13 · Ps 10:2 · Ps 83:3 · Ps 105:25 · Prov 1:11 · +6 more

11Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.Cross-references: Gen 15:13 · Gen 47:11 · Ex 2:11 · Ex 3:7 · Ex 5:4 · Ex 5:15 · +9 more

12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.Cross-references: Ex 1:9 · Job 5:2 · Ps 105:24 · Prov 21:30 · Prov 27:4 · John 12:19 · +4 more

13The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,Cross-references: Deut 4:20

14and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.Cross-references: Gen 15:13 · Ex 1:13 · Ex 2:23 · Ex 5:7 · Ex 6:9 · Ex 20:2 · +18 more

15The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,

16and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”Cross-references: Ex 1:22 · Matt 21:38 · Rev 12:4

17But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.Cross-references: Gen 20:11 · Gen 42:18 · Ex 1:21 · Neh 5:15 · Ps 31:19 · Prov 8:13 · +12 more

18The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing and saved the boys alive?”Cross-references: 2Sam 13:28 · Eccl 8:4

19The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”Cross-references: Josh 2:4 · 1Sam 21:2 · 2Sam 17:19

20God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.Cross-references: Ex 1:7 · Ex 1:12 · Ps 41:1 · Ps 61:5 · Ps 85:9 · Ps 103:11 · +10 more

21Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:35 · 1Sam 25:28 · 2Sam 7:11 · 2Sam 7:27 · 1Ki 2:24 · 1Ki 11:38 · +6 more

22Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”Cross-references: Gen 41:1 · Ex 1:16 · Ex 7:19 · Ps 105:25 · Prov 1:16 · Prov 4:16 · +3 more