Exodo 1
Magandang Balita Biblia
Ang Pang-aapi sa mga Israelita
1 Ito(A) ang mga anak ni Jacob na kasama niyang pumunta sa Egipto, kasama ang kani-kanilang sambahayan: 2 sina Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda, 3 Isacar, Zebulun, Benjamin, 4 Dan, Neftali, Gad at Asher; 5 silang lahat ay pitumpu. Si Jose ay matagal nang nasa Egipto noon. 6 Paglipas ng panahon, namatay si Jose, ang kanyang mga kapatid at ang kanilang salinlahi. 7 Ngunit(B) mabilis ang pagdami ng mga Israelita kaya't sila'y naging makapangyarihan at halos napuno nila ang buong lupain.
8 Lumipas(C) ang panahon at nagkaroon ang Egipto ng ibang hari na hindi nakakakilala kay Jose. 9 Sinabi niya sa kanyang mga kababayan, “Nanganganib tayo sa mga Israelita. Sila'y patuloy na dumarami at lumalakas kaysa atin. 10 Kailangang(D) gumawa tayo ng paraan upang mapigil ang kanilang pagdami. Baka salakayin tayo ng ating mga kaaway at kumampi pa sila sa mga ito, at pagkatapos ay tumakas sa[a] ating lupain.” 11 Kaya't naglagay sila ng mababagsik na tagapangasiwa upang pahirapan ang mga Israelita; ipinagawa ng Faraon sa mga ito ang mga Lunsod ng Pitom at Rameses, mga lunsod na imbakan ng mga pagkain at kagamitan. 12 Ngunit habang inaapi, ang mga ito ay lalo namang dumarami at naninirahan ang mga Israelita sa iba't ibang bayan kaya't sila'y kinatakutan ng mga Egipcio. 13 Dahil dito, ang mga Israelita'y lalong walang awang 14 pinahirapan ng mga Egipcio sa paggawa ng tisa at ng iba't ibang mabibigat na gawaing bukid.
15 Isang araw, ipinatawag ng Faraon sina Sifra at Pua, ang mga komadronang Hebreo at sinabihan nang ganito: 16 “Sa pagpapaanak ninyo sa mga Hebrea, patayin ninyo kung lalaki ang sanggol, at hayaan ninyong mabuhay kung babae.” 17 Ngunit dahil sa takot nila sa Diyos, hindi sinunod ng mga komadrona ang utos ng hari; hindi nila pinapatay ang mga sanggol na lalaki. 18 Dahil dito'y ipinatawag sila ng hari at tinanong, “Bakit hindi ninyo pinapatay ang mga sanggol na lalaking isinisilang ng mga Hebrea?”
19 “Mangyari po, iba ang mga Hebrea sa mga Egipcia. Madali po silang manganak kaya naisilang na ang sanggol pagdating namin,” sagot nila. 20 Kaya't patuloy na dumami at lumakas ang mga Israelita. Ang mga komadrona naman ay kinalugdan ng Diyos. 21 Sila'y pinagkalooban niya ng mga sariling pamilya. 22 Iniutos(E) naman ng Faraon sa lahat ng kanyang nasasakupan na itapon sa Ilog Nilo ang lahat ng lalaking isisilang ng mga Hebrea at hayaan namang mabuhay ang mga babae.
Footnotes
- Exodo 1:10 tumakas sa: o kaya'y sakupin ang .
Exodus 1
English Standard Version
Israel Increases Greatly in Egypt
1 (A)These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5 All the descendants of Jacob were (B)seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt. 6 Then (C)Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation. 7 (D)But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.
Pharaoh Oppresses Israel
8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, (E)who did not know Joseph. 9 And he said to his people, “Behold, (F)the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us. 10 (G)Come, (H)let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.” 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them (I)to afflict them with heavy (J)burdens. They built for Pharaoh (K)store cities, Pithom and (L)Raamses. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel. 13 So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel (M)work as slaves 14 and (N)made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.
15 Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, 16 “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.” 17 But the midwives (O)feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live. 18 So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and let the male children live?” 19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.” 20 (P)So God dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied and grew very strong. 21 And because the midwives feared God, (Q)he gave them families. 22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, (R)“Every son that is born to the Hebrews[a] you shall cast into (S)the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”
Footnotes
- Exodus 1:22 Samaritan, Septuagint, Targum; Hebrew lacks to the Hebrews
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