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7 - But The Israelites Were Fruitful And Multiplied Greatly And Became Exceedingly Numerous, So That The Land Was Filled With Them.
10 - 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."
11 - So They Put Slave Masters Over Them To Oppress Them With Forced Labor, And They Built Pithom And Rameses As Store Cities For Pharaoh.
12 - But The More They Were Oppressed, The More They Multiplied And Spread; So The Egyptians Came To Dread The Israelites
14 - 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.
16 - "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."
17 - The Midwives, However, Feared God And Did Not Do What The King Of Egypt Had Told Them To Do; They Let The Boys Live.
18 - Then The King Of Egypt Summoned The Midwives And Asked Them, "Why Have You Done This? Why Have You Let The Boys Live?"
19 - The Midwives Answered Pharaoh, "Hebrew Women Are Not Like Egyptian Women; They Are Vigorous And Give Birth Before The Midwives Arrive."
22 - 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."