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Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
The Second Book of Moses is called EXODUS, from the Greek word EXODOS,which signifies going out: because it contains the history of the goingout of the children of Israel out of Egypt. The Hebrews, from the wordswith which it begins, call it VEELLE SEMOTH: These are the names. Itcontains transactions for 145 years; that is, from the death of Josephto the erecting of the tabernacle.
Exodus Chapter 1
The Israelites are multiplied in Egypt. They are oppressed by a newking, who commandeth all their male children to be killed.
1:1. These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Egyptwith Jacob: they went in every man with his household:
1:2. Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,
1:3. Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin,
1:4. Dan, and Nephthali, Gad and Aser.
1:5. And all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh, were seventy: butJoseph was in Egypt.
1:6. After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,
1:7. The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes,and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.
1:8. In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew notJoseph:
1:9. And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children ofIsrael are numerous and stronger than we.
1:10. Come let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if anywar shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcomeus, depart out of the land.
1:11. Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict themwith burdens: and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom,and Ramesses.
Of tabernacles… Or, of storehouses.
1:12. But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multipliedand increased.
1:13. And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted themand mocked them:
1:14. And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay and brick,and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in theworks of the earth.
1:15. And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: ofwhom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,
1:16. Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to theHebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child,kill it: if a woman, keep it alive.
1:17. But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypthad commanded, but saved the men children.
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