1 Here are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah,
3 Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin,
4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
5 These descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; apart from these, Joseph was already in Egypt.
6 Then Joseph died as did all his brothers and all that generation.
7 The sons of Israel were fruitful and kept increasing. To such an extent did they multiply and grow in strength that the land teemed with them.
8 Then a new king who had not known Joseph came to power
9 and said to his people, "The Israelites are more numerous and stronger than we are.
10 Let us deal warily with them lest they increase still more and, in case of war, side with our enemy, fight against us and escape from the land."
11 So they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. In that way they built the storage towns of Pithom and Rameses.
12 But the more they oppressed the Hebrews the more they increased and spread, until the Egyptians dreaded the Israelites
13 and became ruthless in making them work.
14 They made life bitter for them in hard labor with bricks and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields. In all their work the Egyptians treated them harshly.
15 Then the king of Egypt gave orders to the Hebrew midwives - one of whom was called Shiprah and the other Puah -
16 that when they attended Hebrew women who were on the birthstool and saw that it was a boy, they were to kill it, but if it was a girl they were to let it live.
17 But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded but let the children live.
18 The king called the midwives and said, "Why have you acted like that and let the children live?"
19 The midwives replied, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women. They are vigorous and give birth even before a midwife arrives."
20 God blessed the midwives, and the people increased and became even more numerous.
21 Because the midwives revered God, he made them mothers of families.
22 Pharaoh then gave this order to all the people: "Every infant boy born to the Hebrews must be thrown into the Nile, but every girl may live."
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Exodus 1 is the beginning of the book of Exodus, where the oppression of the Israelites in Egypt is reported and the beginning of God's plan to free them. The chapter begins with the introduction of the history of the Israelites in Egypt, which had multiplied a lot and were seen as a threat by the Egyptians. Pharaoh then decides to oppress them, enslaving them, and ordering the midwives to kill male newborns. Below are five verses related to the topics addressed in Exodus 1:
Exodus 2:24: "And God heard his moan, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob." This verse shows that God heard the cry of the Israelites and remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, promising to free them from Egypt.
Deuteronomy 26:7: "And we cry to the Lord God of our parents; and the Lord heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our work, and our oppression." Here we see that the Israelites cried to the Lord during their oppression in Egypt, and God heard them and saw His affliction and oppression.
Psalm 81:6: "I took his load from his shoulder, his hands were free from the baskets." This verse speaks of the liberation of the Israelites of Egypt, where God took the burden of the oppression of their shoulders and set them free to have free hands.
Exodus 3:7: "And the Lord said, I have seen carefully the affliction of my people, who is in Egypt, and I have heard his cry because of his exactors, because I knew their pains." Here God speaks directly to Moses and claims to have seen the affliction of his people in Egypt and heard his cry because of oppression.
Isaiah 43:1: "But now the Lord says that he created you, O Jacob, and formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, because I released you; I called you by your name, you are mine." This verse speaks of Israel's liberation and redemption by the Lord, who called them by name and promised not to abandon them.
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