Israel Increases
All these number of descendants of Jacob who came to Egypt with Jacob.
What is seventy?
There arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know this person.
Who is Joseph?
The Egyptians ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as this.
What are slaves?
The two Hebrew midwives were named these.
Who are Shiphrah and Puah?
Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into this place.”
What is the Nile?
This son of Jacob was already in Egypt.
Who is Joseph?
The Egyptians set these over Israel to afflict them with heavy burdens.
Who are taskmasters?
The Egyptians made these people's lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field.
Who are the people of Israel?
The King of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is this gender, you shall kill it.”
What is a son (a boy, a male child)?
The people of Israel continued to grow in this way.
What is “they multiplied and grew very strong”?
These people grew exceedingly strong, and the land of Egypt was filled with them.
Who are the people of Israel?
The new king said to his people, “The people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us; let us do this with them.”
What is “deal shrewdly with them”?
The Egyptians made the people of Israel work as slaves with these kinds of hard service in the field.
What are mortar and brick, and all kinds of work in the field?
God dealt this attitude with the midwives.
What is well?
For all the Hebrew baby girls, Pharaoh commanded this.
What is “let every daughter live”?
After Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, the people of Israel were growing in this way.
What is “they were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong”?
Israel built for Pharaoh these things.
What are store cities, Pithom and Raamses?
The Egyptians were feeling in this way because of the people of Israel.
What is dread? (or What is fear?)
The midwives did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but did this.
What is “let the boys live”?
God gave the people of Israel families because this.
What is “the midwives feared God”?
These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob.
Who are Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher?
The new king wanted to deal shrewdly with Israel to prevent this from happening.
What is “they multiply and, if war breaks out, join our enemies, fight against us, and escape from the land”?
The more Israel were oppressed, they grew in this way.
What is “the more they multiplied and spread abroad”?
The midwives let the male children live because of this.
What is “they feared God”?
Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall do this.”
What is “cast into the Nile”?