These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Exodus 1
Tanakh 22 verses
- 1 NOW THESE are the names of the sons of , who came into with ; every man came with his household:
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, , , and ;
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, , and ;
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- 4 and , and .
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And all the souls that came out of the loins of were seventy souls; and was in already.
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And died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
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And the children of were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
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Genesis 46:3 Deuteronomy 26:5 Genesis 47:27 Genesis 35:11 Genesis 12:2 Genesis 28:3-4 Genesis 9:1 Genesis 48:4 Nehemiah 9:23 Deuteronomy 10:22 Genesis 1:28 Genesis 13:16 Genesis 17:16 Genesis 17:4-6 Genesis 22:17 Genesis 1:20 Acts 7:17-18 Psalm 105:24 Genesis 28:14 Genesis 15:5 Genesis 48:16 Exodus 12:37 Genesis 26:4 -
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Now there arose a new over , who knew not .
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And he said unto his people: ‘Behold, the people of the children of are too many and too mighty for us;
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- 10 come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there befalleth us any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.’
- 11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.
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But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were adread because of the children of .
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And the Egyptians made the children of to with rigour.
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And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field; in all their service, wherein they made them with rigour.
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Exodus 6:9 Acts 7:19 Numbers 20:15 Exodus 2:23 Psalm 81:6 Acts 7:34 Jeremiah 50:33-34 Genesis 15:13 Isaiah 58:6 Micah 3:3 Exodus 5:7-21 Deuteronomy 26:6 Ruth 1:20 Isaiah 52:5 Deuteronomy 4:20 Leviticus 25:53 Psalm 68:13 Isaiah 14:6 Isaiah 51:23 Leviticus 25:46 Nahum 3:14 Exodus 20:2 Leviticus 25:43 Exodus 1:13 - 15 And the of spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the of the one was Shiphrah, and the of the other Puah;
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and he said: ‘When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, ye shall look upon the birthstool: if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.’
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- 17 But the midwives feared , and did not as the of commanded them, but saved the men-children alive.
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And the of called for the midwives, and said unto them: ‘Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive?’
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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 midwife come unto them.’
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- 20 And dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
- 21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared , that He made them houses.
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And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying: ‘Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall alive.’
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