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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Egypt with Jacob: they went in every man with his household:",
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,",
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin,",
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "Dan, and Nephthali, Gad and Aser.",
      "citation": "Exodus 1:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "And all the souls that came out of Jacob's thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.",
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,",
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.",
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph:",
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we.",
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "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.",
      "citation": "Exodus 1:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "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.",
      "citation": "Exodus 1:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 12,
      "text": "But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied and increased.",
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      "verse": 13,
      "text": "And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them:",
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      "verse": 14,
      "text": "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.",
      "citation": "Exodus 1:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 15,
      "text": "And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,",
      "citation": "Exodus 1:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 16,
      "text": "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.",
      "citation": "Exodus 1:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 17,
      "text": "But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.",
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      "verse": 18,
      "text": "And the king called for them and said: What is it that you meant to do, that you would save the men children?",
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      "verse": 19,
      "text": "They answered: The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they themselves are skilful in the office of a midwife; and they are delivered before we come to them.",
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      "verse": 20,
      "text": "Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.",
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      "verse": 21,
      "text": "And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.",
      "citation": "Exodus 1:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 22,
      "text": "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.",
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