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The 
Second Book of Moses
called
Exodus
Chapter I
1 The children of Israel, after Joseph's death, increase, 8 The more they are oppressed by a new king, the more they multiply, 15 The godliness of the midwives in saving the male children alive, 22 Pharaoh commands the male children to be cast into the river
Gen 46:8;Exo 6:14Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
Gen 46:26;Deu 10:225 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
Gen 50:26;Act 7:15;Ecc 1:46 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
Act 7:17;Psa 105:24;Deu 26:57 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
Psa 105:249 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
Act 7:19;Pro 28:16;Job 5:1310 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Gen 47:11;Psa 81:6;Pro 27:311 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
Psa 81:6;Pro 14:31;Psa 10:17-1814 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
Act 5:29;Dan 6:13;Dan 3:16,1817 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
Jos 2:4;2 Sam 17:19-2019 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
Heb 6:10;Isa 3:10;Ecc 8:1220 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
1 Sam 2:35;2 Sam 7:11,13;2 Sam 7:27,2921 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.