{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/exodus/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T23:52:36.467Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Exodus","bookSlug":"exodus","chapter":1,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":null,"nextChapter":2,"totalChapters":40,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Egypt with Jacob: they went in, every man with his household: "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda, "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin, "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Dan, and Nephtali, Gad and Aser. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation, "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph: "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied, and increased: "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them: "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua, "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And the king called for them and said: What is that you meant to do, that you would save the men children ? "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses. "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"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. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Exodus 1 (DRB)","markdown":"[Exodus 1](https://primebible.com/drb/exodus/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/exodus/1 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}