出埃及记 1
Revised Chinese Union Version (Simplified Script) Shen Edition
以色列人生养众多
1 以色列的众儿子各带着家眷，和雅各一同来到埃及，他们的名字如下： 2 吕便、西缅、利未、犹大、 3 以萨迦、西布伦、便雅悯、 4 但、拿弗他利、迦得、亚设。 5 凡从雅各生的，共有七十人。那时，约瑟已经在埃及。 6 约瑟和他所有的兄弟，以及那一代的人都死了。 7 然而，以色列人生养众多，繁衍昌盛，极其强盛，遍满了那地。
以色列人受虐待
8 有一位不认识约瑟的新王兴起，统治埃及。 9 他对自己的百姓说：“看哪，以色列人的百姓比我们还多，又比我们强盛。 10 来吧，让我们机巧地待他们，恐怕他们增多起来，将来若有战争，他们就联合我们的仇敌来攻击我们，然后离开这地去了。” 11 于是埃及人派监工管辖他们，用劳役苦待他们。他们为法老建造储货城，就是比东和兰塞。 12 可是越苦待他们，他们就越发增多，更加繁衍，埃及人就因以色列人愁烦。
13 埃及人严厉地强迫以色列人做工， 14 使他们因苦工而生活痛苦；无论是和泥，是做砖，是做田间各样的工，一切的工埃及人都严厉地对待他们。
15 埃及王又对希伯来的接生婆，一个名叫施弗拉，另一个名叫普阿的说： 16 “你们为希伯来妇人接生，临盆的时候要注意[a]，若是男的，就把他杀了，若是女的，就让她活。” 17 但是接生婆敬畏 神，不照埃及王的吩咐去做，却让男孩活着。 18 埃及王召了接生婆来，对她们说：“你们为什么做这事，让男孩活着呢？” 19 接生婆对法老说：“因为希伯来妇人与埃及妇人不同；希伯来妇人健壮，接生婆还没有到，她们已经生产了。” 20 神恩待接生婆；以色列人增多起来，极其强盛。 21 接生婆因为敬畏 神， 神就叫她们成立家室。 22 法老吩咐他的众百姓说：“把所生的[b]每一个男孩都丢到尼罗河里去，让所有的女孩存活。”
Exodus 1
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Israel Oppressed in Egypt
1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; each came with his family:(A)
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
5 The total number of Jacob’s descendants[a] was 70;[b](B) Joseph was already in Egypt.
6 Then Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died.(C) 7 But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied, and became extremely numerous(D) so that the land was filled with them.
8 A new king, who had not known Joseph, came to power in Egypt. 9 He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and powerful than we are.(E) 10 Let us deal shrewdly with them; otherwise they will multiply further, and if war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”(F) 11 So the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor.(G) They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities(H) for Pharaoh. 12 But the more they oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread so that the Egyptians came to dread[c] the Israelites. 13 They worked the Israelites ruthlessly(I) 14 and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.(J)
15 Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, 16 “When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them as they deliver.[d] If the child is a son, kill him, but if it’s a daughter, she may live.” 17 The Hebrew midwives, however, feared God(K) and did not do as the king of Egypt had told them;(L) they let the boys live. 18 So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this and let the boys live?”
19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife can get to them.”(M)
20 So God was good to the midwives,(N) and the people multiplied and became very numerous. 21 Since the midwives feared God, He gave them families.(O) 22 Pharaoh then commanded all his people: “You must throw every son born to the Hebrews[e] into the Nile, but let every daughter live.”(P)
Footnotes
- Exodus 1:5 Lit of people issuing from Jacob’s loins
- Exodus 1:5 LXX, DSS read 75; Gn 46:27; Ac 7:14
- Exodus 1:12 Or Egyptians loathed
- Exodus 1:16 Lit birth, look at the stones
- Exodus 1:22 Sam, LXX, Tg; MT omits to the Hebrews
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