The Israelites Multiply in Egypt
(Genesis 46:7–27)

1These are the names of the children of Israel, whiche came into Egypt with Iacob, euery ma came with his housholde: 2Ruben, Simeon, Leui, and Iuda: 3Isachar, Zabulon, and Beniamin, 4Dan and Nephthali, Gad & Aser. 5All the soules that came out of the line of Iacob, were seuentie: 6But Ioseph was in Egypt alredy, & Ioseph dyed, and all his brethren, and all that generation. 7And the children of Israel were fruitfull, encreased, multiplied, & waxed exceedyng myghtie, and the lande was full of them.

Oppression by a New King
(Acts 7:15–19)

8But there arose vp a newe kyng in Egypt, which knewe not Ioseph: 9And he sayde vnto his folke, Beholde, the people of the chyldren of Israel are greater and myghtier then we. 10Come on, let vs deale wyttyly with the, lest they multiplie, & lest it come to passe, that if there be any warre, they ioyne them selues vnto our enemies, & fight agaynst vs, & so get them vp out of ye land. 11Therfore dyd they set taske maisters ouer them, to kepe the vnder with burthens: And they buylt vnto Pharao treasure cities, Pithom & Raamses. 12But the more they vexed them, the more they multiplied and grewe: so that they abhorred at the syght of the chyldren of Israel. 13And the Egyptians helde the children of Israel in bondage without mercie, 14And they made their lyues bytter vnto them in that cruell bondage, in claye, and bricke, and all maner of worke in the fielde: for all their bondage wherein they serued them was ful of tirannie.

15And the kyng of Egypt spake vnto the mydwyfes of the Hebrues women: (of which the one was named Siphrah and the other Puah) and sayde: 16When ye do the office of a mydwyfe to the women of the Hebrues, and see in the birth tyme that it is a boy, ye shall kyl it: but if it be a daughter, it shal liue. 17Notwithstanding, the mydwifes feared God, and dyd not as the kyng of Egypt commaunded them, but saued the men chyldren. 18And the kyng of Egypt called for the mydwyfes, and sayde vnto them: why haue ye dealt on this maner, and haue saued the men chyldren? 19And the mydwyfes aunswered Pharao: that ye Hebrues women are not as the women of Egypt: for they are more liuely women, and are deliuered yer the mydwyfes come at them. 20And God dealt well therefore with the mydwyfes: and the people multiplied and waxed very myghtie. 21And it came to passe, that because the midwifes feared God, he made them houses. 22And Pharao charged all his people, saying: All the men chyldren that are borne, cast into the ryuer, and saue the mayde chyldren alyue.