Liber Exodus, 1
1. hæc sunt nomina filiorum Israël qui ingressi sunt Ægyptum cum Jacob singuli cum domibus suis introjerunt
1. These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Egypt with Jacob: they went in, every man with his household:
2. Ruben Symeon Levi Juda
2. Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,
3. Isachar Zabulon et Beniamin
3. Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin,
4. Dan et Nepthalim Gad et Aser
4. Dan, and Nephtali, Gad and Aser.
5. erant igitur omnes animæ eorum qui egressi sunt de femore Jacob septuaginta Joseph autem in Ægypto erat
5. And all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.
6. quo mortuo et universis fratribus ejus omnique cognatione illa
6. After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,
7. filii Israël creverunt et quasi germinantes multiplicati sunt ac roborati nimis impleverunt terram
7. The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.
8. surrexit interea rex novus super Ægyptum qui ignorabat Joseph
8. In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph:
9. et ait ad populum suum ecce populus filiorum Israël multus et fortior nobis
9. And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we.
10. venite sapienter opprimamus eum ne forte multiplicetur et si ingruerit contra nos bellum addatur inimicis nostris expugnatisque nobis egrediatur e terra
10. Come, let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome us, depart out of the land.
11. præposuit itaque eis magistros operum ut adfligerent eos oneribus ædificaveruntque urbes tabernaculorum Pharaoni Phiton et Ramesses
11. Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens, and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom and Ramesses.
12. quantoque opprimebant eos tanto magis multiplicabantur et crescebant
12. But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied, and increased:
13. oderantque filios Israël Ægyptii et adfligebant inludentes eis
13. And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them:
14. atque ad amaritudinem perducebant vitam eorum operibus duris luti et lateris omnique famulatu quo in terræ operibus premebantur
14. And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay, and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.
15. dixit autem rex Ægypti obsetricibus Hebræorum quarum una vocabatur Sephra altera Phua
15. And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,
16. præcipiens eis quando obsetricabitis Hebræas et partus tempus advenerit si masculus fuerit interficite illum si femina reservate
16. Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive.
17. timuerunt autem obsetrices Deum et non fecerunt juxta præceptum regis Ægypti sed conservabant mares
17. But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.
18. quibus ad se accersitis rex ait quidnam est hoc quod facere voluistis ut pueros servaretis
18. And the king called for them and said: What is that you meant to do, that you would save the men children ?
19. quæ responderunt non sunt hebrææ sicut ægyptiæ mulieres ipsæ enim obsetricandi habent scientiam et priusquam veniamus ad eas pariunt
19. They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves are skillful in the office of a midwife; and they are delivered before we come to them.
20. bene ergo fecit Deus obsetricibus et crevit populus confortatusque est nimis
20. Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.
21. et quia timuerant obsetrices Deum ædificavit illis domos
21. And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.
22. præcepit autem Pharao omni populo suo dicens quicquid masculini sexus natum fuerit in flumen proicite quicquid feminei reservate
22. Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of the female, ye shall save alive.
