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Exodus Chapter 1

Exodus
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Exodus

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The chapter records the birth of the Israelites in Egypt and Pharaoh’s decision to increase their numbers, which leads to the oppression of the children. It also introduces the notion of a distinct nation and the promise of future deliverance.

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(1) Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
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Exodus 6:14Exodus 6:15Exodus 6:16Genesis 29:31Genesis 29:32Genesis 29:33Genesis 29:34Genesis 29:35Genesis 30:1Genesis 30:2Genesis 30:3Genesis 30:4

(2) Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
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Genesis 35:22

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Genesis 35:23I Chronicles 2:1

(3) Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
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Genesis 35:23Exodus 28:20

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Deuteronomy 33:18

(4) Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
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Deuteronomy 27:13Joshua 19:47I Chronicles 2:2Ezekiel 48:34

(5) And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
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Genesis 46:26Judges 8:30Exodus 1:20Genesis 46:27Deuteronomy 10:22

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Ezekiel 13:18Ezekiel 13:20Genesis 46:26Genesis 46:27Joshua 10:37Ezekiel 13:19

(6) And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
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Genesis 50:24Genesis 50:26Acts 7:14Acts 7:15Acts 7:16

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Genesis 37:28

(7) And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
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Exodus 12:37Genesis 1:20Genesis 1:28Genesis 9:1Genesis 12:2Genesis 13:16Genesis 15:5Genesis 17:4Genesis 17:5Genesis 17:6Genesis 17:16Genesis 22:17

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Exodus 1:20Jeremiah 46:12

(8) Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
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Ecclesiastes 2:18Ecclesiastes 2:19Ecclesiastes 9:15Acts 7:18

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Genesis 37:28

(9) And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
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Numbers 22:4Numbers 22:5Job 5:2Psalms 105:24Psalms 105:25Proverbs 14:28Proverbs 27:4Ecclesiastes 4:4Titus 3:3James 3:14James 3:15James 3:16

(10) Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
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Psalms 10:2Psalms 83:3Psalms 83:4Proverbs 1:11Numbers 22:6Job 5:13Psalms 105:25Proverbs 16:25Proverbs 21:30Acts 7:19Acts 23:12I Corinthians 3:18

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Deuteronomy 1:42

(11) Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
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Exodus 3:7Exodus 5:15Genesis 15:13Numbers 20:15Deuteronomy 26:6Exodus 2:11Exodus 5:4Exodus 5:5Psalms 68:13Psalms 81:6Psalms 105:13Genesis 47:11

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Genesis 41:25

(12) But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
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Psalms 105:24Proverbs 21:30Romans 8:28Hebrews 12:6Hebrews 12:7Hebrews 12:8Hebrews 12:9Hebrews 12:10Hebrews 12:11Exodus 1:9Job 5:2Proverbs 27:4

(13) And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
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Exodus 14:12Genesis 43:32Joshua 24:15Judges 9:28

(14) 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.
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Exodus 2:23Exodus 6:9Genesis 15:13Numbers 20:15Deuteronomy 4:20Deuteronomy 26:6Ruth 1:20Acts 7:19Acts 7:34Psalms 68:13Psalms 81:6Nahum 3:14

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I Chronicles 28:21Numbers 18:21Ezekiel 29:18I Chronicles 28:14Isaiah 14:3Exodus 35:19

(15) 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:
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Exodus 1:19

(16) 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.
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Exodus 1:22Matthew 21:38Revelation 12:4

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Luke 12:53Romans 14:8Galatians 2:20Genesis 36:2Exodus 2:7Leviticus 18:17

(17) But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
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Genesis 20:11Genesis 42:18Nehemiah 5:15Psalms 31:19Proverbs 8:13Proverbs 16:6Proverbs 24:11Proverbs 24:12Ecclesiastes 8:12Ecclesiastes 12:13Daniel 3:16Daniel 3:17

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Exodus 1:18

(18) 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?
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II Samuel 13:28Ecclesiastes 8:4

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I Samuel 1:8Exodus 1:17

(19) 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.
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Joshua 2:4Joshua 2:5Joshua 2:6Joshua 2:7Joshua 2:8Joshua 2:9Joshua 2:10Joshua 2:11Joshua 2:12Joshua 2:13Joshua 2:14Joshua 2:15

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I Kings 11:1Judges 5:24Judges 16:27I Samuel 15:33Esther 2:3Esther 2:12

(20) Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
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Psalms 41:1Psalms 41:2Psalms 61:5Psalms 85:9Psalms 103:11Psalms 111:5Psalms 145:19Proverbs 11:18Proverbs 19:17Ecclesiastes 8:12Isaiah 3:10Matthew 10:42

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II Kings 4:26Exodus 1:7

(21) And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
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I Samuel 2:35I Samuel 25:28II Samuel 7:11II Samuel 7:12II Samuel 7:13II Samuel 7:27II Samuel 7:28II Samuel 7:29I Kings 2:24I Kings 11:38Psalms 37:3Psalms 127:1

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Exodus 10:6Jeremiah 19:13

(22) 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.
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Exodus 1:16Exodus 7:19Exodus 7:20Exodus 7:21Psalms 105:25Proverbs 1:16Proverbs 4:16Proverbs 27:4Acts 7:19Revelation 16:4Revelation 16:5Revelation 16:6

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Leviticus 18:9Luke 12:53Genesis 15:18Exodus 2:5Exodus 7:18Exodus 7:20

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