02:001:011 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. 02:001:012 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. 02:001:013 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: 02:001:014 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. 02:001:015 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: 02:001:016 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. 02:001:017 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. 02:001:018 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? 02:001:019 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. 02:001:020 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. 02:001:021 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses. 02:001:022 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. 02:002:001 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 02:002:002 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 02:002:003 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. 02:002:004 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. 02:002:005 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. 02:002:006 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. 02:002:007 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? 02:002:008 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.