1. Now these are the names of Bnei-Yisrael who came into Egypt with Jacob, each man with his family:
2. Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah;
3. Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin;
4. Dan, Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
5. The souls that came out of the line of Jacob numbered 70 in all, while Joseph was already in Egypt.
6. Then Joseph died, as did all his brothers and all that generation.
7. Yet Bnei-Yisrael were fruitful, increased abundantly, multiplied and grew extremely numerous—so the land was filled with them.
8. Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
9. He said to his people, “Look, the people of Bnei-Yisrael are too numerous and too powerful for us.
10. Come, we must deal shrewdly with them, or else they will grow even more numerous, so that if war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and then escape from the land.”
11. So they set slave masters over them to afflict them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Raamses as storage cities for Pharaoh.
12. But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread. So the Egyptians dreaded the presence of Bnei-Yisrael.
13. They worked them harshly,