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

¹In ta so imena sinov Izraelovih, ki so prišli v Egipt z Jakobom; vsak je prišel z rodbino svojo:

²Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

²Ruben, Simeon, Levi in Juda,

³Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

³Isahar, Zebulon in Benjamin,

⁴Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

⁴Dan in Neftali, Gad in Aser.

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

⁵In bilo je vseh duš, ki so izšle iz ledij Jakobovih, sedemdeset; a Jožef je bil prej v Egiptu.

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

⁶In umrl je Jožef in vsi bratje njegovi in vse to pokolenje.

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

⁷In sinovi Izraelovi so bili plodoviti, rodili so se obilo, razmnoževali so se in postali so jako, jako mogočni; in napolnila se je zemlja ž njimi.

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

⁸Nastopi pa v Egiptu nov kralj, ki ni poznal Jožefa.

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

⁹Ta reče ljudstvu svojemu: Glejte, ljudstvo sinov Izraelovih je številnejše in mogočnejše od nas.

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.”

¹⁰Dejte, pametno ravnajmo proti njemu, da se ne razmnoži, in zgodilo bi se, ako nastane vojna, da se tudi ono pridruži sovražnikom našim in se bo vojskovalo zoper nas in odšlo iz dežele.

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

¹¹Nastavijo torej nad njimi priganjače za raboto, da naj jih tlačijo pri njih težaškem delu. Zidali so pa Faraonu mesta za skladišča, Pitom in Rameses.

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.

¹²A čim bolj so jih tlačili, tem bolj so se razmnoževali, tem bolj so se razširjali: in Egipčane je bilo groza sinov Izraelovih.

¹³The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,

¹³In neusmiljeno so Egipčani priganjali sinove Izraelove k delu;

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.

¹⁴in grenili so jim življenje s trdim delom z ilovico in z opeko in z vsakovrstnim opravilom na polju, z vsem njih delom, katero so jim nakladali neusmiljeno.

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,

¹⁵In ukaže kralj egiptovski dvema hebrejskima babicama, katerih prvi je bilo ime Šifra in drugi ime Pua,

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.”

¹⁶rekoč: Ko pomagate ženam hebrejskim pri porodu, pazite na rojenje: če je sin, usmrtite ga, če pa hči, naj ostane živa.

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.

¹⁷Bali sta se pa ti babici Boga in nista delali, kakor jima je bil ukazal kralj egiptovski, temuč pustili sta dečke živeti.

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

¹⁸In pokliče kralj egiptovski ti babici in jima reče: Zakaj sta to storili in pustili dečke živeti?

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.”

¹⁹Babici pa odgovorita Faraonu: Niso Hebrejke kakor egiptovske žene: ker so krepke narave, porodijo, preden pride k njim babica.

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

²⁰In Bog je dobro storil tema babicama. Ljudstvo pa se je množilo in postalo zelo mogočno.

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

²¹In ker sta se babici bali Boga, jima je napravil hiši.In zapove Faraon vsemu ljudstvu svojemu, rekoč: Vsakega sina, ki se jim narodi, vrzite v reko, a vsako hčer ohranite živo.

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

²²In zapove Faraon vsemu ljudstvu svojemu, rekoč: Vsakega sina, ki se jim narodi, vrzite v reko, a vsako hčer ohranite živo.