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Exodus 1

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1 Dette er Navnene på Israels Sønner, der sammen med Jakob kom til Ægypten med deres Familier:

2 uben, Simeon, Levi og Juda,

3 Issakar, Zebulon og Benjamin,

4 Dan og Naftali, Gad og Aser.

5 Jakobs Efterkommere udgjorde i alt halvfjerdsindstyve, men Josef var i Ægypten.

6 Imidlertid døde Josef og alle hans Brødre og hele dette Slægtled.

7 Men Israeliterne var frugtbare og formerede sig, og de blev mange og overmåde talrige, så at Landet blev fuldt af dem.

8 Da kom der en ny Konge over Ægypten, som ikke vidste noget om Josef;

9 og han sagde til sit Folk: "Se, Israels Folk bliver talrigere og stærkere end vi.

10 Velan, lad os gå klogt til Værks imod dem, for at de ikke skal blive for mange; ellers kan det hænde, når vi kommer i Krig, at de går over til vore Modstandere og kæmper mod os og til sidst forlader Landet!"

11 Så satte man Fogeder over dem til at plage dem med Trællearbejde, og de måtte bygge Forrådsbyer for Farao: Pitom og a'amses.

12 Men jo mere man plagede dem, des flere blev de, og des mere bredte de sig, så Ægypterne fik ædsel for Israeliterne.

13 Og Ægypterne tvang Israeliterne til Trællearbejde

14 og gjorde dem Livet bittert ved hårdt Arbejde med Ler og Tegl og alle Hånde Markarbejde, ved alt det Arbejde, de tvang dem til at udføre for sig.

15 Ægypterkongen sagde da til Hebræerkvindernes Jordemødre, af hvilke den ene hed Sjifra, den anden Pua:

16 "Når I forløser Hebræerkvinderne, skal I se godt efter ved Fødselen, og er det et Drengebarn, tag så Livet af det, men er det et Pigebarn, lad det så leve!"

17 Men Jordemødrene frygtede Gud og gjorde ikke, som Ægypterkongen havde befalet dem, men lod Drengebørnene leve.

18 Da lod Ægypterkongen Jordemødrene kalde og sagde til dem: "Hvorfor har I båret eder således ad og ladet Drengebørnene leve?"

19 Men Jordemødrene svarede Farao: "Hebræerkvinderne er ikke som de Ægyptiske Kvinder, de har let ved at føde; inden Jordemoderen kommer til dem, har de allerede født!"

20 Og Gud gjorde vel imod Jordemødrene, og Folket blev stort og såre talrigt;

21 og Gud gav Jordemødrene Afkom, fordi de frygtede ham.

22 Da udstedte Farao den Befaling til hele sit Folk: "Alle Drengebørn, der fødes, skal I kaste i Nilen, men Pigebørnene skal I lade leve!"


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6672. Verses 15-21 And the king of Egypt said to the midwives of the Hebrew women, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah - he said, When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstools, if it is a son you shall kill him; and if it is a daughter, let her live. And the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt spoke to them; and they kept the boys alive. And the king of Egypt called the midwives, and said to them, Why do you act like that and keep the boys alive? And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are full of life; before the midwife comes to them they have given birth. And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became very numerous. And so it was, because the midwives feared God, that He made them houses.

'And the king of Egypt said to the midwives of the Hebrew women means an influx from separated factual knowledge into the natural where the Church's true factual knowledge resided. 'Of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah' means the nature and state of the natural where that factual knowledge resided. 'He said, When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstools' means a discernment of the truth and good flowing from the internal into that factual knowledge. 'If it is a son you shall kill him' means that if it was a form of truth, they were to destroy it in whatever way they could. 'And if it is a daughter, let her live' means that they were not to destroy it if it was a form of good. ' And the midwives feared God' means that true factual knowledge was kept safe because it was kept so by the Divine. 'And did not do as the king of Egypt spoke to them' means that the intention of those under the influence of falsities was not carried out. 'And they kept the boys alive' means that the truths, being the truths of good, were preserved. 'And the king of Egypt called the midwives means that those under the influence of falsities planned a course of action against those who had true factual knowledge in the natural. 'And said to them, Why do you act like that and keep the boys alive?' means anger that the truths were not destroyed. 'And the midwives said to Pharaoh' means a discernment regarding that true factual knowledge in the natural. 'Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women' means that the Church's factual knowledge is not like the factual knowledge which is at odds with it. 'For they are full of life' means that it has spiritual life within it. 'Before the midwife comes to them they have given birth' means that the natural knows nothing until life is imparted to it. 'And God dealt well with the midwives' means that the natural was blessed by the Divine. 'And the people multiplied and became very numerous' means that within the natural, truths were constantly emerging and so increasing. 'And so it was, because the midwives feared God' means because true factual knowledge was being kept safe by the Divine. 'That He made them houses' means that they were arranged into a heavenly form.

  
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