{
  "chapterNum": 1,
  "verses": [
    {
      "verseNum": 1,
      "text": "These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 2,
      "text": "Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 3,
      "text": "Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 4,
      "text": "Dan and Naphtali;\n    \n    Gad and Asher."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 5,
      "text": "The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy  in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 6,
      "text": "Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 7,
      "text": "but the Israelites were fruitful and increased rapidly; they multiplied and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 8,
      "text": "Then a new king, who did not know Joseph, came to power in Egypt."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 9,
      "text": "“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 10,
      "text": "Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 11,
      "text": "So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 12,
      "text": "But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 13,
      "text": "They worked the Israelites ruthlessly"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 14,
      "text": "and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 15,
      "text": "Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 16,
      "text": "“When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 17,
      "text": "The midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had instructed; they let the boys live."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 18,
      "text": "So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 19,
      "text": "The midwives answered Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife arrives.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 20,
      "text": "So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became even more numerous."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 21,
      "text": "And because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 22,
      "text": "Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews  you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”"
    }
  ]
}