Verse 6
Exodus 1:6
New Living Translation
6
In time, Joseph and all of his brothers died, ending that entire generation.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יָּ֤מָת יוֹסֵף֙ וְ/כָל אֶחָ֔י/ו וְ/כֹ֖ל הַ/דּ֥וֹר הַ/הֽוּא
English Translation
And Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 1 Context
1
These are the names of the sons of Israel (that is, Jacob) who moved to Egypt with their father, eac...
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Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah,
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Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin,
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Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
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In all, Jacob had seventy descendants in Egypt, including Joseph, who was already there.
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In time, Joseph and all of his brothers died, ending that entire generation.
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But their descendants, the Israelites, had many children and grandchildren. In fact, they multiplied...
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8
Eventually, a new king came to power in Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph or what he had done.
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9
He said to his people, “Look, the people of Israel now outnumber us and are stronger than we are.
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10
We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more. If we don’t, and if war breaks out, they wi...
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11
So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, ho...
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12
But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more the Israelites multiplied and spread, and the mo...
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13
So the Egyptians worked the people of Israel without mercy.
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14
They made their lives bitter, forcing them to mix mortar and make bricks and do all the work in the...
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15
Then Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, gave this order to the Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah:
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16
“When you help the Hebrew women as they give birth, watch as they deliver. If the baby is a boy, kil...
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But because the midwives feared God (Elohim), they refused to obey the king’s orders. They allowed t...
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So the king of Egypt called for the midwives. “Why have you done this?” he demanded. “Why have you a...
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“The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women,” the midwives replied. “They are more vigorous an...
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So God (Elohim) was good to the midwives, and the Israelites continued to multiply, growing more and...
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21
And because the midwives feared God (Elohim), he gave them families of their own.
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22
Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Throw every newborn Hebrew boy into the Nile River....
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