1These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Egypt with Jacob: they went in every man with his household:

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Genesis 46:8, Genesis 46:26, 1 Chronicles 2:1, 1 Chronicles 2:2, Genesis 46:8

2Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,

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Genesis 35:22, Genesis 35:22

3Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin,

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Exodus 28:20, Exodus 28:20, Genesis 35:23, Genesis 35:23

4Dan, and Nephthali, Gad and Aser.

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5And all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.

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Deuteronomy 10:22, Deuteronomy 10:22, Genesis 46:26, Genesis 46:27, Genesis 46:26

6After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,

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Genesis 50:26, Genesis 50:26, Acts 7:14, Acts 7:16, Genesis 50:24

7The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.

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Genesis 46:3, Genesis 46:3, Genesis 1:28, Deuteronomy 26:5, Genesis 1:28

8In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph:

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Acts 7:18, Acts 7:18, Ecclesiastes 2:18, Ecclesiastes 2:19, Ecclesiastes 2:18

9And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we.

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Psalms 105:24, Psalms 105:25, Psalms 105:24, Psalms 105:25, James 3:14

10Come let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome us, depart out of the land.

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Acts 7:19, Acts 7:19, Psalms 83:3, Psalms 83:4, Proverbs 1:11

11Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens: and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom, and Ramesses.

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Genesis 15:13, Genesis 15:13, Genesis 47:11, Exodus 3:7, Exodus 2:11

12But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied and increased.

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Psalms 105:24, Psalms 105:24, Exodus 1:9, Exodus 1:9, Romans 8:28

13And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them:

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Deuteronomy 4:20, Deuteronomy 4:20

14And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.

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Acts 7:19, Numbers 20:15, Acts 7:19, Numbers 20:15, Exodus 6:9

15And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,

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16Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive.

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Exodus 1:22, Exodus 1:22, Matthew 21:38, Matthew 21:38, Revelation 12:4

17But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.

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Acts 5:29, Acts 5:29, Exodus 1:21, Exodus 1:21, Luke 12:5

18And the king called for them and said: What is it that you meant to do, that you would save the men children?

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Ecclesiastes 8:4, Ecclesiastes 8:4, 2 Samuel 13:28, 2 Samuel 13:28

19They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves are skilful in the office of a midwife; and they are delivered before we come to them.

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2 Samuel 17:19, 2 Samuel 17:20, Joshua 2:4, Joshua 2:24, 2 Samuel 17:19

20Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.

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Isaiah 3:10, Ecclesiastes 8:12, Isaiah 3:10, Ecclesiastes 8:12, Proverbs 11:18

21And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.

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1 Kings 11:38, 1 Kings 11:38, 1 Samuel 2:35, 1 Samuel 2:35, Psalms 37:3

22Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of the female, ye shall save alive.

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Acts 7:19, Acts 7:19, Proverbs 1:16, Proverbs 1:16, Revelation 16:4