Exodus 1
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Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

fruitful.

Exodus 12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about …

Genesis 1:20,28 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature …

Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, …

Genesis 12:2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and …

Genesis 13:16 And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a …

Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, …

Genesis 17:4-6,16 As for me, behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be a father …

Genesis 22:17 That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply …

Genesis 26:4 And I will make your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and …

Genesis 28:3,4,14 And God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, …

Genesis 35:11 And God said to him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; …

Genesis 46:3 And he said, I am God, the God of your father: fear not to go down …

Genesis 47:27 And Israel dwelled in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; …

Genesis 48:4,16 And said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, …

Deuteronomy 10:22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with three score and ten persons…

Deuteronomy 26:5 And you shall speak and say before the LORD your God, A Syrian ready …

Nehemiah 9:23 Their children also multiplied you as the stars of heaven, and brought …

Psalm 105:24 And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.

Acts 7:17,18 But when the time of the promise drew near, which God had sworn to …

Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

a new king. Probably Rameses Miamum, or his son Amenophis, who succeeded him about this period; and by his not knowing Joseph is meant his not acknowledging his obligation to him.

Ecclesiastes 2:18,19 Yes, I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun: because …

Ecclesiastes 9:15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered …

Acts 7:18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.

And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:

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And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

their lives.

Exodus 2:23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: …

Exodus 6:9 And Moses spoke so to the children of Israel: but they listened not …

Genesis 15:13 And he said to Abram, Know of a surety that your seed shall be a …

Numbers 20:15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelled in Egypt …

Deuteronomy 4:20 But the LORD has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron …

Deuteronomy 26:6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid on …

Ruth 1:20 And she said to them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty …

Acts 7:19,34 The same dealt subtly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, …

in mortar.

Psalm 68:13 Though you have lien among the pots, yet shall you be as the wings …

Psalm 81:6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

Nahum 3:14 Draw you waters for the siege, fortify your strong holds: go into …

was with rigour.

Exodus 1:13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor:

Exodus 5:7-21 You shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: …

Exodus 20:2 I am the LORD your God, which have brought you out of the land of …

Leviticus 25:43,46,53 You shall not rule over him with rigor; but shall fear your God…

Isaiah 14:6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that …

Isaiah 51:23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict you; which have …

Isaiah 52:5 Now therefore, what have I here, said the LORD, that my people is …

Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, …

Jeremiah 50:33,34 Thus said the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children …

Micah 3:3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off …

And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

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And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

and see them. or, rather, and ye see them by the stone-trough; a stone, seems to signify in which they washed the new-born infants. See this subject fully illustrated in Fragments to Calmet, nos.

Exodus 1:22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born …

Matthew 21:38 But when the farmers saw the son, they said among themselves, This …

Revelation 12:4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did …

But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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