The Leeser Bible
1853 by Isaac Leeser

Exodus Chapter 1

Exo 1:1 Now these are the names of the children of Israel, that came into Egypt with Jacob, every man and his household they came.
Exo 1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Exo 1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
Exo 1:4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
Exo 1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; together with Joseph who was already in Egypt.
Exo 1:6 And Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.
Exo 1:7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
Exo 1:8 Now there rose up a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.
Exo 1:9 And he said unto his people: Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more numerous and mightier than we.
Exo 1:10 Come, let us deal wisely with them lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there happen to be a war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and depart out of the land.
Exo 1:11 And they set over taskmasters, to afflict them with their burdensome labors; and they built treasure cities, for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.
Exo 1:12 But in the measure that they afflicted them, so they multiplied and so they spread out; and they felt abhorrence because of the children of Israel.
Exo 1:13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to labor with rigor:
Exo 1:14 And they made their lives bitter with hard labor, in mortar, and in bricks, and in all manner of labor in the field; in all their service, wherein they made them labor with rigor.
Exo 1:15 And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah;
Exo 1:16 And he said: When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, ye shall look upon the birth; if it be a son, then shall ye kill him; but if it be a daughter, then may she live.
Exo 1:17 But the midwives feared God, and they did not as the king of Egypt had commanded them, but saved the men–children alive.
Exo 1:18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and he said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men–children alive?
Exo 1:19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively; ere the midwife cometh in unto them they are delivered.
Exo 1:20 And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
Exo 1:21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
Exo 1:22 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.