Verse 8
Exodus 1:8
English Revised Version
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Now there arose a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יָּ֥קָם מֶֽלֶךְ חָדָ֖שׁ עַל מִצְרָ֑יִם אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא יָדַ֖ע אֶת יוֹסֵֽף
English Translation
And a new king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph.
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Chapter 1 Context
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Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household ca...
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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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And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: and Joseph was in Egypt al...
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And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
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And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceed...
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Now there arose a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
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And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than...
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come, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there fallet...
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Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for...
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But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they...
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And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
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and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of ser...
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And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and t...
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and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birthstoo...
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But the midwives feared God (Elohim), and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the...
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And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and...
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And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they...
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And God (Elohim) dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
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And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God (Elohim), that he made them houses.
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And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and...
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