2. Mose 1 in verschiedenen Übersetzungen
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These were the names of the sons of Israel (Jacob) who came with him to Egypt along with their families:
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Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
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Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
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Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
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Jacob had 70 descendants there, including Joseph who was already in Egypt.
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Eventually Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died.
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However, the Israelites had many children and their numbers increased rapidly. In fact there were so many of them that they became very powerful—the country was full of them.
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Then a new king came to power who didn't know anything about Joseph.
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He conferred with his fellow Egyptians and said, “Look at these Israelites—there are more of them than us, and they're more powerful than us.
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Let's deal wisely with them before they become so many that if there's a war they'll side with our enemies and fight us, and flee the country.”
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So the Egyptians made them do forced labor and put taskmasters in charge of them. They used them to build the storage towns of Pithom and Rameses.
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But the more the Israelites were mistreated, the more they grew in numbers and spread out—and the more the Egyptians detested them.
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The Egyptians worked the Israelites brutally,
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making their lives a misery. They made them do hard labor, building with mortar and brick, and all kinds of heavy work in the fields. In all of this hard labor they treated them brutally.
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Then the king gave orders to the Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah.
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He told them, “When you assist the Hebrew women during childbirth, if you see it's a boy, kill him; but if it's a girl, let her live.”
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But because the midwives revered God, they didn't do what the king of Egypt had ordered. They let the boys live as well.
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The king of Egypt called the midwives in and demanded to know, “Why have you done this— letting the male children live?”
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“Hebrew women aren't like Egyptian women,” the midwives told Pharaoh. “They give birth more easily—they have them before we midwives arrive.”
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God treated the midwives well, and the people increased in number so there were even more of them.
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Because the midwives revered God, he gave them families of their own.
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Then Pharaoh issued this order to all his people: “Throw every Hebrew boy that's born into the Nile, but let every girl live.”