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OET-RV by cross-referenced section EXO 1:1

EXO 1:1–1:22 ©

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Israel’s descendants are driven into slavery

Exo 1:1–22

1:1 Israel’s descendants are driven into slavery

1These are the names of Yisra’el’s descendants who accompanied Yacob (Jacob) when he moved his household to Egypt:[ref] 2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Yehudah, 3Issachar, Zebulun, Benyamin, 4Dan, Naftali, Gad, and Asher. 5At that time, Yacob had a total of seventy descendants (including Yosef and his sons who were already in Egypt.)

6As the years progressed, Yosef and his brothers died—all of that generation, 7but they’d had many children who went on to have their own children and grandchildren, and so they became a large and powerful group there in Egypt.[ref]

8Eventually a new king came to power in Egypt who had never known Yosef[ref] 9and he told his people, “Listen, those descendants of Israel are becoming more numerous and powerful than us. 10So, let’s deal wisely with them, in case they continue to multiply. Then if war was to break out, they could easily take the other side and fight against us, and then leave our country.”[ref] 11Then they appointed overseers to work them in slave gangs, and using them as forced labour, they built the store cities at Pithon and Rameses for Far’oh (Pharaoh). 12However, the more they oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread out, and the more the Egyptians came to dread the Israelis. 13So they made the Israelis work long, hard hours, 14and they made their lives bitter with the hard slavery. They were forced to make mortar and bricks, as well as all kinds of slave labour in the fields—all the work they had to do was strenuous and tiring.

15Then the king of Egypt spoke to Shiphrah and Puah, the two Hebrew midwives, 16saying, “When you assist the Hebrew women as midwives, as you sit there on your stool, if you see that it’s a male, do something so he’ll die, but if it’s a female, then let her live.” 17But the midwives were godly women and didn’t do according to what the Egyptian king had instructed them, and they let the boys live. 18So the king called the midwives back, and he demanded, “Why have you done that and let their sons live?”

19“Because the Hebrew women aren’t like Egyptian women,” the midwives answered. “They’re more active and give birth before the midwife even gets to them.” 20So God rewarded the midwives, and meanwhile, the people continued to increase in number and become more powerful, 21and because the midwives had demonstrated their desire to obey God, he gave them families of their own. 22Then Far’oh commanded all of his people, “You all need to toss every newborn boy into the river, but you can let the girls live.”[ref]


Collected OET-RV cross-references

Gen 46:8-27:

8These are the names of the Israel’s sons who went to Egypt, that is Yacob and his sons: Yacob’s firstborn was Reuben, 9and Reuben’s sons were Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi. 10Simeon’s sons were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. 11Levi’s sons were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12Yehudah’s sons were Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah, but Er and Onan had died in Canaan. Perez’ sons were Hezron and Hamul. 13Issachar’s sons were Tola, Puvah, Job, and Shimron. 14Zebulun’s sons were Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. 15Those were all Le’ah’s sons that she bore for Yacob in Paddan Aram, along with his daughter Dinah. The total number of those descendants was thirty-three.

16Gad’s sons were Ziphion,Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. 17Asher’s sons were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. And Beriah’s sons were Heber and Malkiel. 18Those were all Zilpah’s sons, the slave woman that Lavan had given to his daughter Le’ah, and she gave birth to those sixteen descendants for Yacob.

19Yacob’s wife Rahel’s sons were Yosef and Benyamin. 20Yosef’s sons Manasseh and Efraim were born in Egypt. Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of On, gave birth to them for Yosef.[ref] 21Benyamin’s sons were Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. 22Those were all Rahel’s descendants—a total of fourteen.

23Dan’s son was Hushim. 24Naftali’s sons were Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. 25Those two were both Bilhah’s sons, the slave woman that Lavan had given to his daughter Rahel, and she gave birth to those seven descendants for Yacob.

26The total count of those who went to Egypt with Yacob who were his descendants (not counting his daughters-in-law) was sixty-six. 27As well as that, Yosef’s two sons were born in Egypt so that added up to a grand total of seventy.[ref]


46:20: Gen 41:50-52.

46:27: Acts 7:14.

Acts 7:17:

17[ref]But as the time limit promised to Abraham by God was getting closer, our people multiplied in Egypt


7:17-18: Exo 1:7-8.

Acts 7:18:

18until another Far’oh Far’oh (Pharaoh) ended up ruling there who had never known Yosef.

Acts 7:19:

19[ref]He took advantage of us Jews and mistreated our ancestors, even forcing them apart from their own babies so they wouldn’t live.


7:19: a Exo 1:10-11; b Exo 1:22.