Exodus 1
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):
1Hæc sunt nomina filiorum Israël qui ingressi sunt in Ægyptum cum Jacob: singuli cum domibus suis introierunt:
2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
2Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Judas,
3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
3Issachar, Zabulon et Benjamin,
4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
4Dan et Nephthali, Gad et Aser.
5All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
5Erant igitur omnes animæ eorum qui egressi sunt de femore Jacob, septuaginta: Joseph autem in Ægypto erat.
6Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.
6Quo mortuo, et universis fratribus ejus, omnique cognatione illa,
7The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
7filii Israël creverunt, et quasi germinantes multiplicati sunt: ac roborati nimis, impleverunt terram.
8Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.
8Surrexit interea rex novus super Ægyptum, qui ignorabat Joseph.
9He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
9Et ait ad populum suum: Ecce, populus filiorum Israël multus, et fortior nobis est.
10Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”
10Venite, sapienter opprimamus eum, ne forte multiplicetur: et si ingruerit contra nos bellum, addatur inimicis nostris, expugnatisque nobis egrediatur de terra.
11Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
11Præposuit itaque eis magistros operum, ut affligerent eos oneribus: ædificaveruntque urbes tabernaculorum Pharaoni, Phithom et Ramesses.
12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.
12Quantoque opprimebant eos, tanto magis multiplicabantur, et crescebant:
13The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,
13oderantque filios Israël Ægyptii, et affligebant illudentes eis,
14and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
14atque ad amaritudinem perducebant vitam eorum operibus duris luti et lateris, omnique famulatu, quo in terræ operibus premebantur.
15The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,
15Dixit autem rex Ægypti obstetricibus Hebræorum, quarum una vocabatur Sephora, altera Phua,
16and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”
16præcipiens eis: Quando obstetricabitis Hebræas, et partus tempus advenerit: si masculus fuerit, interficite eum: si femina, reservate.
17But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
17Timuerunt autem obstetrices Deum, et non fecerunt juxta præceptum regis Ægypti, sed conservabant mares.
18The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing and saved the boys alive?”
18Quibus ad se accersitis, rex ait: Quidnam est hoc quod facere voluistis, ut pueros servaretis?
19The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”
19Quæ responderunt: Non sunt Hebreæ sicut ægyptiæ mulieres: ipsæ enim obstetricandi habent scientiam, et priusquam veniamus ad eas, pariunt.
20God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
20Bene ergo fecit Deus obstetricibus: et crevit populus, confortatusque est nimis.
21Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
21Et quia timuerunt obstetrices Deum, ædificavit eis domos.
22Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”
22Præcepit ergo Pharao omni populo suo, dicens: Quidquid masculini sexus natum fuerit, in flumen projicite: quidquid feminini, reservate.
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