Catholic Public Domain Version

Exodus 1:1-8 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

1. These are the names of the sons of Israel, who went into Egypt with Jacob. They entered, each one with his house:

2. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah,

3. Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

4. Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

5. Therefore, all the souls of those who went forth from Jacob's thigh were seventy. Now Joseph was in Egypt.

6. When he had died, along with all of his brothers and all of that generation,

7. the sons of Israel increased, and they multiplied like seedlings. And having been strengthened exceedingly, they filled the land.

8. Meanwhile, there arose a new king over Egypt, who was ignorant of Joseph.