1:11 So they put foremen 7 over the Israelites 8 to oppress 9 them with hard labor. As a result 10 they built Pithom and Rameses 11 as store cities for Pharaoh. 1:12 But the more the Egyptians 12 oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. 13 As a result the Egyptians loathed 14 the Israelites, 1:13 and they 15 made the Israelites serve rigorously. 16 1:14 They made their lives bitter 17 by 18 hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service 19 in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous. 20
1:15 The king of Egypt said 21 to the Hebrew midwives, 22 one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, 23 1:16 24 “When you assist 25 the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: 26 If it is a son, kill him, 27 but if it is a daughter, she may live.” 28