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Exodus 1

    ²Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,

    ³Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin,

    ⁴Dan, and Nephtali, Gad and Aser.

    ⁵And all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.

    ⁶After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,

    ⁷The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.

    ⁸In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph:

    ⁹And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we.

    ¹⁰Come, let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome us, depart out of the land.

    ¹¹Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens, and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom and Ramesses.

    ¹²But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied, and increased:

    ¹³And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them:

    ¹⁴And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay, and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.

    ¹⁵And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,

    ¹⁶Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive.

    ¹⁷But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.

    ¹⁸And the king called for them and said: What is that you meant to do, that you would save the men children ?

    ¹⁹They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves are skillful in the office of a midwife; and they are delivered before we come to them.

    ²⁰Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.

    ²¹And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.

    ²²Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of the female, ye shall save alive.

Exodus 2

    ²And she conceived, and bore a son; and seeing him a goodly child hid him three months.

    ³And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink,

    ⁴His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done.

    ⁵And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to wash herself in the river: and her maids walked by the river's brink. And when she saw the basket in the sedges, she sent one of her maids for it: and when it was brought,

    ⁶She opened it and seeing within it an infant crying, having compassion on it she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews.

    ⁷And the child's sister said to her Shall I go and call to thee a Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe ?

    ⁸She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother.

    ⁹And Pharao's daughter said to her. Take this child and nurse him for me: I will give thee thy wages. The woman took, and nursed the child: and when he was grown up, she delivered him to Pharao's daughter.

    ¹⁰And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: Because I took him out of the water.

    ¹¹In those days after Moses was grown up, he went out to his brethren: and saw their affliction, and an Egyptian striking one of the Hebrews his brethren.

    ¹²And when he had looked about this way and that way, and saw no one there, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

    ¹³And going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews quarreling: and he said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest thou thy neighbour?

    ¹⁴But he answered: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over us: wilt thou kill me, as thou didst yesterday kill the Egyptian? Moses feared, and said: How is this come to be known ?

    ¹⁵And Pharao heard of this word and sought to kill Moses: but he fled from his sight, and abode in the land of Madian, and he sat down by a well.

    ¹⁶And the priest of Madian had seven daughters, who came to draw water: and when the troughs were filled, desired to water their father's flocks.

    ¹⁷And the shepherds came and drove them away: and Moses arose, and defending the maids, watered their sheep.

    ¹⁸And when they returned to Raguel their father, he said to them: Why are ye come sooner than usual?

    ¹⁹They answered: A man of Egypt delivered us from the hands of the shepherds: and he drew water also with us, and gave the sheep to drink.

    ²⁰But he said: Where is he? why have you let the man go? call him that he may eat bread.

    ²¹And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife:

    ²²And she bore him a son, whom he called Gersam, saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country. And she bore another, whom he called Eliezer, saying: For the God of my father, my helper hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao.

    ²³Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works.

    ²⁴And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant which he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

    ²⁵And the Lord looked upon the children of Israel, and he knew them.

Exodus 3

    ²And the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he saw that the bush was on fire and was not burnt.

    ³And Moses said: I will go and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.

    ⁴And when the Lord saw that he went forward to see, he called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said: Moses, Moses. And he answered: Here I am.

    ⁵And he said: Come not nigh hither, put off the shoes from thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

    ⁶And he said: I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses hid his face: for he durst not look at God.

    ⁷And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works:

    ⁸And knowing their sorrow, I am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a good and spacious land, into a land that floweth with milk and honey, to the places of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite.

    ⁹For the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have seen their affliction, wherewith they are oppressed by the Egyptians.

    ¹⁰But come, and I will send thee to Pharao, that thou mayst bring forth my people, the children of Israel out of Egypt.

    ¹¹And Moses said to God: Who am I that I should go to Pharao, and should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

    ¹²And he said to him: I will be with thee: and this thou shalt have for a sign, that I have sent thee: When thou shalt have brought my people out of Egypt, thou shalt offer sacrifice to God upon this mountain.

    ¹³Moses said to God: Lo, I shall go to the children of Israel, and say to them: The God of your fathers hath sent me to you. If they should say to me: What is his name? what shall I say to them?

    ¹⁴God said to Moses: I AM WHO AM. He said: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: HE WHO IS, hath sent me to you.

    ¹⁵And God said again to Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me to you: This is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

    ¹⁶Go, gather together the ancients of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to me, saying: Visiting I have visited you: and I have seen all that hath befallen you in Egypt.

    ¹⁷And I have said the word to bring you forth out of the affliction of Egypt, into the land of the Chanaanite, the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite, to a land that floweth with milk and honey.

    ¹⁸And they shall hear thy voice: and thou shalt go in, thou and the ancients of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and thou shalt say to him: The Lord God of the Hebrews hath called us: we will go three days' journey into the wilderness, to sacrifice unto the Lord our God.

    ¹⁹But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, but by a mighty hand.

    ²⁰For I will stretch forth my hand and will strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst of them: after these he will let you go.

    ²¹And I will give favour to this people, in the sight of the Egyptians: and when you go forth, you shall not depart empty:

    ²²But every woman shall ask of her neighbour, and of her that is in her house, vessels of silver and of gold, and raiment: and you shall put them on your sons and daughters, and shall spoil Egypt.

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Matthew 14

    ²And he said to his servants: This is John the Baptist: he is risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works shew forth themselves in him.

    ³For Herod had apprehended John and bound him, and put him into prison, because of Herodias, his brother's wife.

    ⁴For John said to him: It is not lawful for thee to have her.

    ⁵And having a mind to put him to death, he feared the people: because they esteemed him as a prophet.

    ⁶But on Herod's birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced before them: and pleased Herod.

    ⁷Whereupon he promised with an oath, to give her whatsoever she would ask of him.

    ⁸But she being instructed before by her mother, said: Give me here in a dish the head of John the Baptist.

    ⁹And the king was struck sad: yet because of his oath, and for them that sat with him at table, he commanded it to be given.

    ¹⁰And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.

    ¹¹And his head was brought in a dish: and it was given to the damsel, and she brought it to her mother.

    ¹²And his disciples came and took the body, and buried it, and came and told Jesus.

    ¹³Which when Jesus had heard, he retired from thence by boat, into a desert place apart, and the multitudes having heard of it, followed him on foot out of the cities.

    ¹⁴And he coming forth saw a great multitude, and had compassion on them, and healed their sick.

    ¹⁵And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying: This is a desert place, and the hour is now past: send away the multitudes, that going into the towns, they may buy themselves victuals.

    ¹⁶But Jesus said to them, They have no need to go: give you them to eat.

    ¹⁷They answered him: We have not here, but five loaves, and two fishes.

    ¹⁸He said to them: Bring them hither to me.

    ¹⁹And when he had commanded the multitudes to sit down upon the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

    ²⁰And they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up what remained, twelve full baskets of fragments.

    ²¹And the number of them that did eat, was five thousand men, besides women and children.