¹Toto sú mená synov Izraelových, ktorí prišli do Egypta s Jakobom. Každý prišiel so svojím domom.

¹Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):

²Rúben, Simeon, Lévi a Júda,

²Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

³Izachár, Zabulon a Benjamin,

³Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

⁴Dán, Naftali, Gád a Aser.

⁴Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

⁵A bolo všetkých duší, ktoré pošly z bedra Jakobovho, sedemdesiat duší. A Jozef bol v Egypte.

⁵All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

⁶A Jozef zomrel i všetci jeho bratia i celé to pokolenie.

⁶Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.

⁷A synovia Izraelovi sa plodili a hemžili a množili sa a mocneli prenáramne a naplnená bola nimi zem.

⁷The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

⁸Potom povstal nový kráľ nad Egyptom, ktorý neznal Jozefa.

⁸Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.

⁹A povedal svojmu ľudu: Hľa, ľudu synov Izraelových je viac ako nás a je to mocnejší ľud ako my.

⁹He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

¹⁰Nože buďme opatrní voči nemu, aby sa príliš nerozmnožil, a stalo by sa, keby povstala vojna proti nám, že by sa aj on pridal k tým, ktorí nás nenávidia, a bojoval by proti nám a vyšiel by hore zo zeme.

¹⁰Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”

¹¹Preto postavili nad ním úradníkov, ktorí vyberali dane, aby ho trápili svojimi bremenami. A ľud vystavil faraonovi mestá skladíšť, mesto Pitom a Ramses.

¹¹Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

¹²Ale čím viacej ho trápili, tým viacej sa množil a tým viacej sa rozširoval. A hrozili sa synov Izraelových.

¹²But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.

¹³A Egypťania podrobovali synov Izraelových v službu ukrutne ich utláčajúc.

¹³The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,

¹⁴A strpčovali ich život tvrdou prácou, blatom a tehlami, a všelijakou prácou na poli, a k tomu každou inou svojou prácou, ktorú konali nimi, ukrutne ich utláčajúc.

¹⁴and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

¹⁵A egyptský kráľ rozkázal porodným babám hebrejským, z ktorých jednej bolo meno Šifra, a druhej Pua,

¹⁵The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,

¹⁶a povedal: Keď budete pomáhať hebrejským ženám pri pôrode a budete hľadieť na rodenie, vtedy, ak bude syn, zabijete ho, a keď dcéra, bude žiť.

¹⁶and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

¹⁷Ale baby sa bály Boha, a neurobily tak, ako im hovoril egyptský kráľ, lež nechaly chlapcov žiť.

¹⁷But the midwives feared God, The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.” and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

¹⁸A egyptský kráľ povolal baby a povedal im: Prečo ste to urobily, že ste nechaly chlapcov žiť?

¹⁸The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?”

¹⁹A baby riekly faraonovi: Hebrejky nie sú jako egyptské ženy, lebo tie sú zdravé a silné; prv ako k nim prijde baba, porodia.

¹⁹The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”

²⁰A Bôh učinil dobre babám, a ľud sa množil a mocneli veľmi.

²⁰God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

²¹A stalo sa, keď sa baby bály Boha, že im učinil domy.

²¹It happened, because the midwives feared God, that he gave them families.

²²A faraon rozkázal všetkému svojmu ľudu a povedal: Každého syna, ktorý sa narodí, hodíte do rieky, a každú dcéru necháte žiť.

²²Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”