1Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):

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

2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

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Genesis 35:22, Genesis 35:22

3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

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

4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

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5All the souls who came out of Jacob's body were seventy-five souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

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

6Joseph died, as did all his brothers, 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 were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

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

8Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

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

9He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

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

10Come, let us 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."

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

11Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

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

12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.

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

13The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,

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Deuteronomy 4:20, Deuteronomy 4:20

14and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

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

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,

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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."

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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 what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

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

18The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?"

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

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."

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

20God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

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

21It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.

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

22Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."

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