This king exploited our people and oppressed them, forcing parents to abandon their newborn babies so they would die.

他用诡计待我们的宗族，苦害我们的祖宗，叫他们丢弃婴孩，使婴孩不能存活。

他用诡计待我们的宗族，苦待我们的祖宗，强迫他们丢弃婴孩，使婴孩不能存活。

他用诡计待我们的宗族，苦待我们的祖宗，强迫他们丢弃婴孩，使婴孩不能存活。

他用毒计苦害我们的同胞，虐待我们的祖先，强令他们把婴孩抛弃，不让婴孩存活。

他就谋害我们的同胞，虐待我们的祖先，逼他们抛弃自己的婴孩，不容婴孩存活。

这王狡猾地对待我们的同胞，虐待我们的祖先，强迫他们丢弃自己的婴孩，好使婴孩活不下去。

他用詭計待我們的宗族，苦害我們的祖宗，叫他們丟棄嬰孩，使嬰孩不能存活。

他用詭計待我們的宗族，苦待我們的祖宗，強迫他們丟棄嬰孩，使嬰孩不能存活。

他用詭計待我們的宗族，苦待我們的祖宗，強迫他們丟棄嬰孩，使嬰孩不能存活。

他用毒計苦害我們的同胞，虐待我們的祖先，強令他們把嬰孩拋棄，不讓嬰孩存活。

他就謀害我們的同胞，虐待我們的祖先，逼他們拋棄自己的嬰孩，不容嬰孩存活。

這個王用詭計待我們的民族，苦害我們的祖宗，強令他們丟棄嬰兒，不讓存活。

這王狡猾地對待我們的同胞，虐待我們的祖先，強迫他們丟棄自己的嬰孩，好使嬰孩活不下去。

乃陰謀我族、虐待我祖、命棄其嬰、致不得生、

陰謀我族、困苦我祖、使棄其嬰、無俾遺種、

詭謀我族、困苦我祖、使棄其男孩、不許存活、

而以陰謀詭計待之。逼我列祖、令棄嬰以絕其嗣。

He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to throw out their newborn babies so that they would die.

The king was very evil and dishonest with our people. He treated them badly. He forced them to throw out their newborn babies to die.

He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, so that they would not be kept alive.

He dealt deceitfully with our race and oppressed our ancestors by making them abandon their infants outside so that they wouldn’t survive.

It was he who shrewdly took advantage of our nation and mistreated our fathers in order that they would abandon their infants in the Nile, so that they would not survive.

This man dealt treacherously with our people, and oppressed our forefathers, making them expose their babies, so that they might not live.

The same dealt craftily with our race, and ill- treated our fathers, that they should cast out their babes to the end they might not live.

He dealt deceitfully with our race and oppressed our ancestors by making them leave their infants outside, so they wouldn’t survive.

The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.

This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.

He said to his people,“ Look, the people of Israel now outnumber us and are stronger than we are.We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more. If we don’t, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us. Then they will escape from the country.”So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor. They forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king.But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more the Israelites multiplied and spread, and the more alarmed the Egyptians became.So the Egyptians worked the people of Israel without mercy.They made their lives bitter, forcing them to mix mortar and make bricks and do all the work in the fields. They were ruthless in all their demands.Then Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, gave this order to the Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah:“ When you help the Hebrew women as they give birth, watch as they deliver. If the baby is a boy, kill him; if it is a girl, let her live.”But because the midwives feared God, they refused to obey the king’s orders. They allowed the boys to live, too.So the king of Egypt called for the midwives.“ Why have you done this?” he demanded.“ Why have you allowed the boys to live?”“ The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women,” the midwives replied.“ They are more vigorous and have their babies so quickly that we cannot get there in time.”So God was good to the midwives, and the Israelites continued to multiply, growing more and more powerful.And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people:“ Throw every newborn Hebrew boy into the Nile River. But you may let the girls live.”

Then he turned the Egyptians against the Israelites, and they plotted against the Lord’s servants.

“ Come,” they say,“ let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”Yes, this was their unanimous decision. They signed a treaty as allies against you—

From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me. Let all Israel repeat this:From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me, but they have never defeated me.My back is covered with cuts, as if a farmer had plowed long furrows.

His tail swept away one third of the stars in the sky, and he threw them to the earth. He stood in front of the woman as she was about to give birth, ready to devour her baby as soon as it was born.She gave birth to a son who was to rule all nations with an iron rod. And her child was snatched away from the dragon and was caught up to God and to his throne.