Exodus 1

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 These are the names of the Israelites who went with Jacob to Egypt, each of them went with his family:	1 These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Egypt with Jacob: they went in, every man with his household:
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah,	2 Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,
3 Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin,	3 Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin,
4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.	4 Dan, and Nephtali, Gad and Aser.
5 In all, the descendants of Jacob numbered seventy persons. Joseph was in Egypt already.	5 And all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.
6 Then Joseph died, and his brothers, and all that generation.	6 After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,
7 But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific; they became so numerous and powerful that eventually thewhole land was ful of them.	7 The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.
8 Then there came to power in Egypt a new king who had never heard of Joseph.	8 In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph:
9 'Look,' he said to his people, 'the Israelites are now more numerous and stronger than we are.	9 And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we.
10 We must take precautions to stop them from increasing any further, or if war should break out, theymight join the ranks of our enemies. They might take arms against us and then escape from the country.'	10 Come, 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.
11 Accordingly they put taskmasters over the Israelites to wear them down by forced labour. In this waythey built the store-cities of Pithom and Rameses for Pharaoh.	11 Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens, and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom and Ramesses.
12 But the harder their lives were made, the more they increased and spread, until people came to fearthe Israelites.	12 But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied, and increased:
13 So the Egyptians gave them no mercy in the demands they made,	13 And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them:
14 making their lives miserable with hard labour: with digging clay, making bricks, doing various kinds offield -- work -- al sorts of labour that they imposed on them without mercy.	14 And 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.
15 The king of Egypt then spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was cal ed Shiphrah, and theother Puah.	15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,
16 'When you attend Hebrew women in childbirth,' he said, 'look at the two stones. If it is a boy, kil him; ifa girl, let her live.'	16 Commanding 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.
17 But the midwives were God-fearing women and did not obey the orders of the king of Egypt, butal owed the boys to live.	17 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.
18 So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, 'What do you mean by al owing theboys to live?'	18 And the king called for them and said: What is that you meant to do, that you would save the men children ?
19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, 'Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women, they are hardy and givebirth before the midwife can get to them.'	19 They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves are skillful in the office of a midwife; and they are delivered before we come to them.
20 For this, God was good to the midwives, and the people went on increasing and growing morepowerful;	20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.
21 and since the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.	21 And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.
22 Pharaoh then gave all his people this command: 'Throw every new-born boy into the river, but let allthe girls live.'	22 Pharao 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.