All the souls that came out of the loins of Iacob, were seventy,
and Ioseph was in Egypt already. When Ioseph was dead and all his
brethren and all that generation: the children of Israel grew,
increased, multiplied and waxed exceeding mighty: so that the land
was full of them. Then there rose up a new king in Egypt which
knew not Ioseph. And he said unto his folk: behold the people of
the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. Come on, let
us play wisely with them: lest they multiply, and then (if there
chance any war) they join them selves unto our enemies and fight
against us, and so get them out of the land. And he set
taskmasters over them, to keep them under with burthens. And they
built unto Pharao treasure cities: Phiton and Raamses. But the
more they vexed them, the more they multiplied and grew: so that
they abhorred the children of Israel. And the Egyptians held the
children of Israel in bondage without mercy, and made their lives
bitter unto them with cruel labour in clay and brick, and all
manner work in the fields, and in all manner of service, which
they caused them to work cruelly. And the king of Egypt said unto
the midwives of the Hebrews' women, of which the one's name was
Sephora and the other Phua: when ye midwife the women of the
Hebrews and see in the birth time that it is a boy, kill it.
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