출애굽기(Exodus) 1장

 

 

출애굽기(Exodus) 1장

 

1. These are thr 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; Joseph was already in

Egypt.

 

6. Now Joseph and all his brothers and

all that generation died,

 

7. but the Israelites were fruitful and

multiplied greatly and became

exceedingly numerous, so that the

land was filled with them.

 

8. Then a new king, who did not know

about Joseph, came to power in Egypt.

 

9. "Look," he said to his people, "the

Israelites have become much too

numerous for us.

 

10. Come, we must deal shrewdiy with

them or they will become even more

numerous and, if war breaks out, will

join our enemies, fight against us and

leave the country."

 

11. So they put slave masters over them

to oppress them with forced labor, and

they built Pithom and Rameses as store

cities for Pharaoh.

 

12. But the more they were oppressed,

the more they multiplied and spread;

so the Egyptians came to dread the

Israelites

 

13. and worked them ruthlessly.

 

14. They made their lives bitter with hard

labor in brick and mortar and with all

kinds of work in the fields; in all their

hard labor the Egyptians used them

ruthlessly.

 

15. The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew

midwives, whose names were Shiphrah

and Puah,

 

16. "When you help the Hebrew women

in childbirth and observe them on the

delivery stool, if it is a boy, kill him; but

if it is a girl, let her live."

 

17. The midwives, however, feared God

and did not do what the king of Egypt

had told them to do; they let the boys

live.

 

18. Then 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,

"Hebrew women are not like Egyptian

women; they are vigorous and give

birth before the midwives arrive."

 

20. So God was kind to the midwives

and the people increased and became

even more numerous.

 

21. And because the midwives feared God,

he gave them families of their own.

 

22. Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his

people: "Every boy that is born you must

throw into the Nile, but let every girl live."