1And these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt with Jacob; each man and his household came.2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.5And all the persons who came out of the thigh of Jacob were seventy persons, and Joseph was in Egypt.6And Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.7And the sons of Israel were fruitful and swarmed and multiplied and grew exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.8And a new king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph.9And he said to his people, 'Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are more numerous and mighty than we.'10Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that war break out and they also join our enemies and fight against us and go up from the land.11And they set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens, and they built store cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Rameses.12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out, so that they were in dread of the sons of Israel.13And the Egyptians made the sons of Israel serve with severity.14And they made their lives bitter with hard service in clay and in bricks and in all service in the field; all their service that they served among them was with severity.15And the 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 serve as midwives to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.'17But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt spoke to them, but let the boys live.18And the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, 'Why have you done this thing and let the boys live?'19And the midwives said to Pharaoh, 'Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous; before the midwife comes to them they give birth.'20And God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and became very numerous.21And it happened that because the midwives feared God, he made houses for them.22And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, 'Every son who is born you shall cast into the Nile, but every daughter you shall let live.'