| | 1 | 以色列的众子，各带家眷和雅各一同来到埃及，他们的名字记在下面。
These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:
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| | 2 | 有流便，西缅，利未，犹大，
Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah;
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| | 3 | 以萨迦，西布伦，便雅悯，
Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin;
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| | 4 | 但，拿弗他利，迦得，亚设。
Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
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| | 5 | 凡从雅各而生的，共有七十人。约瑟已经在埃及。
The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.
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| | 6 | 约瑟和他的弟兄，并那一代的人都死了。
Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,
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| | 7 | 以色列人生养众多，并且繁茂，极其强盛，满了那地。
but the Israelites were fruitful and multiplied greatly and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.
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| | 8 | 有不认识约瑟的新王起来，治理埃及，
Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt.
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| | 9 | 对他的百姓说，看哪，这以色列民比我们还多，又比我们强盛。
"Look," he said to his people, "the Israelites have become much too numerous for us.
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| | 10 | 来吧，我们不如用巧计待他们，恐怕他们多起来，日后若遇什么争战的事，就联合我们的仇敌攻击我们，离开这地去了。
Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country."
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| | 11 | 于是埃及人派督工的辖制他们，加重担苦害他们。他们为法老建造两座积货城，就是比东和兰塞。
So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
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| | 12 | 只是越发苦害他们，他们越发多起来，越发蔓延，埃及人就因以色列人愁烦。
But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites
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| | 13 | 埃及人严严地使以色列人作工，
and worked them ruthlessly.
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| | 14 | 使他们因作苦工觉得命苦，无论是和泥，是做砖，是作田间各样的工，在一切的工上都严严地待他们。
They made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their hard labor the Egyptians used them ruthlessly.
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| | 15 | 有希伯来的两个收生婆，一名施弗拉，一名普阿，埃及王对她们说，
The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,
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| | 16 | 你们为希伯来妇人收生，看她们临盆的时候，若是男孩，就把他杀了，若是女孩，就留她存活。
"When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth and observe them on the delivery stool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live."
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| | 17 | 但是收生婆敬畏神，不照埃及王的吩咐行，竟存留男孩的性命。
The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live.
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| | 18 | 埃及王召了收生婆来，说，你们为什么作这事，存留男孩的性命呢？
Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, "Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?"
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| | 19 | 收生婆对法老说，因为希伯来妇人与埃及妇人不同，希伯来妇人本是健壮的（原文作活泼的），收生婆还没有到，她们已经生产了。
The midwives answered Pharaoh, "Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive."
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| | 20 | 神厚待收生婆。以色列人多起来，极其强盛。
So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous.
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| | 21 | 收生婆因为敬畏神，神便叫她们成立家室。
And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.
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| | 22 | 法老吩咐他的众民说，以色列人所生的男孩，你们都要丢在河里，一切的女孩，你们要存留她的性命。
Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: "Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live."
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