¹Ndiwo mazita avana valsiraeri vakanga vaenda Egipita: mumwe nomumwe akaenda naJakove ana veimba yake:

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

²Rubheni, naSimioni, naRevhi, naJudha,

²Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

³naIsakari, naZebhuruni, naBhenjamini,

³Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

⁴naDhani, naNafutari, naGadhi, naAsheri.

⁴Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

⁵Zvino vanhu vose vakanga vabva muchiuno chaJakove vakanga vari vanhu vana makumi manomwe; asi Josefa akanga atova Egipita.

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

⁶Zvino Josefa akafa, navana vababa vake vose, navose vakanga vane zero navo.

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

⁷Vana vaIsiraeri vakaberekana, vakawanda kwazvo, vakava nesimba guru-guru; nyika yakanga izere navo.

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

⁸Zvino paEgipitati pakamuka mumwe mambo mutsva, akanga asina kuziva Josefa.

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

⁹Iye akati kuvanhu vake, Tarirai, vanhu ava, vana vaIsiraeri, vanotipfuura isu pakuwanda nesimba;

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

¹⁰uyai, ngativafungire zano, varege kuwandisa, kuti kana kurwa kukamuka, ivo vangabatsirana navavengi vedu, vakarwa nesu, vakabva panyika ino.

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.”

¹¹Naizvozvo vakagadza pamusoro pavo vatariri vebasa, kuti vavanetse nemirimo yavo. Vakavakira Farao maguta ana matura, Pitomi naRamesesi.

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

¹²Asi vachiramba vachivanetsa, ivo vakaramba vachiwanda kwazvo, vachingopararira. Vakaora moyo nokuda kwavana vaIsiraeri.

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.

¹³VaEgipita vakavabatisa zvinorema;

¹³The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,

¹⁴vakanetsa upenyu hwavo nebasa rinorema pamatope nezvitina, vachivabatisa zvinorema.

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.

¹⁵Zvino mambo weEgipita akaudza madzimbuya avaHebheru, vainzi mumwe Shifura, mumwe 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,

¹⁶akati, Kana muchibatsira vakadzi vavaHebheru pabasa ramadzimbuya, muchivaona pakupona, kana ari mwanakomana mumuuraye kana ari mwanasikana, ngaararame hake.

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.”

¹⁷Asi madzimbuya akanga achitya Mwari, akasaita sezvaakarairwa namambo asi vakarega vanakomana vari vapenyu havo.

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.

¹⁸Mambo weEgipita akadana madzimbuya, akati kwavari, Makaitireiko izvozvo, mukarega vanakomana vari vapenyu?

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

¹⁹Madzimbuya akati kuna Farao, nekuti vakadzi vavaHebheru havana kufanana navakadzi vavaEgipita, nekuti vane simba; mbuya vasati vasvika kwavari, vatopona havo.

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.”

²⁰Naizvozvo Mwari akaitira madzimbuya zvakanaka, vanhu vakawanda kwazvo, vakava nesimba kwazvo.

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

²¹Zvino madzimbuya zvaakanga achitya Mwari, iye akavapa mhuri.

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

²²Farao akaraira vanhu vake vose, akati, Vanakomana vose vanozoberekwa, muvakandire murwizi, asi vasikana vose muvarege vari vapenyu havo.

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