WEBVTT 00:01.080 --> 00:06.360 Exodus Chapter 1 Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into 00:06.360 --> 00:06.800 Egypt. 00:07.140 --> 00:09.280 Every man and his household came with Jacob. 00:09.920 --> 00:14.000 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 00:14.460 --> 00:16.980 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 00:17.400 --> 00:21.320 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls. 00:21.600 --> 00:25.980 For Joseph was in Egypt already, and Joseph died, and all his brethren, 00:26.440 --> 00:27.460 and all that generation. 00:27.460 --> 00:31.820 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, 00:32.240 --> 00:33.800 and waxed exceedingly mighty. 00:34.100 --> 00:35.700 And the land was filled with them. 00:36.320 --> 00:39.480 Now there rose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. 00:39.780 --> 00:44.540 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are 00:44.540 --> 00:46.260 more and mightier than we. 00:46.800 --> 00:51.200 Come on, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply. 00:51.720 --> 00:56.980 And it come to pass, that when there falleth out any war, they join also unto 00:56.980 --> 00:59.620 our enemies, and fight against us. 01:00.040 --> 01:02.560 And so get them up out of the land. 01:03.180 --> 01:06.820 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their 01:06.820 --> 01:07.140 burdens. 01:07.620 --> 01:11.100 And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom, and Ramesses. 01:11.740 --> 01:14.940 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew, 01:15.380 --> 01:17.820 and they were grieved because of the children of Israel. 01:18.320 --> 01:22.420 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor, and they made 01:22.420 --> 01:26.760 their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner 01:26.760 --> 01:27.840 of service in the field. 01:28.280 --> 01:31.320 All their service wherein they made them serve was with rigor. 01:31.740 --> 01:35.660 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of one was 01:35.660 --> 01:37.600 Shiphrah, and the name of the other Pua. 01:38.080 --> 01:42.680 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them 01:42.680 --> 01:47.880 upon the stools, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him. 01:47.880 --> 01:51.660 But if it be a daughter, then she shall live. 01:52.560 --> 01:56.400 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, 01:56.680 --> 01:58.520 but saved the men children alive. 01:59.080 --> 02:03.320 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye 02:03.320 --> 02:06.560 done this thing, and have saved the men children alive? 02:06.700 --> 02:10.620 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the 02:10.620 --> 02:14.820 Egyptian women, for they are lively, and under delivered air the midwives come 02:14.820 --> 02:15.620 in unto them. 02:15.620 --> 02:20.280 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and 02:20.280 --> 02:21.300 waxed very mighty. 02:21.840 --> 02:25.820 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses. 02:26.460 --> 02:31.160 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall 02:31.160 --> 02:36.380 cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.