brethren their iniquity, and their sin, because they have done so evil unto thee. Forgive now, O my beloved, the iniquity of us the servants of thy father’s God. But Joseph wept when they spake these things unto him.

And his brethren went and fell down before him, and said, Behold, we are thy servants.

And Joseph said unto them: Fear not, for I am under GOD.

Ye thought to do evil unto me: but God thought to do it well, to do as it is now in the day, to preserve much people.

Fear not therefore; I will provide for you, and for your children. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

So Joseph dwelt in Egypt with his father’s house, and lived an hundred and ten years.

And he saw the children of Ephraim unto the third generation. And likewise the children of Machir the son of Manasseh begat children in Joseph’s bosom.

And Joseph said unto his brethren: I die, and GOD will visit you and bring you out of this land into the land which He swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Therefore he took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, When God shall visit you, carry away my bones from thence.

So Joseph died when he was an hundred and ten years old. And they anointed him, and laid him in an ark in Egypt.
Text of the unrevised Luther Bible 1545:
DeepL English Translation
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The second book of Moses (Exodus) ^
Chapter 1
The children of Israel’s servitude and tribulation in Egypt.

These are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt with Jacob; every man entered in with his household:

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah,

Isashar, Zebulun, Benjamin,

Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asser

And of all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob there were seventy. And Joseph was before in Egypt.

Now when Joseph was dead, and all his brethren, and all that were alive at that time, 7. And the children of Israel begat children, and multiplied; and they multiplied exceedingly, and the land was full of them.

And there arose a new king in Egypt, which knew not Joseph;

And said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are many and more than we.

Well, let us restrain them with stratagems, that there be not so many of them. For if there be a war, they will join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and go forth to the land.

And they set officers over them, to oppress them with heavy service: for they built for Pharaoh the cities of Pithon and Raemses for treasuries.

But the more they oppressed the people, the more they multiplied and spread abroad. And they held the children of Israel as an abomination.

And the Egyptians compelled the children of Israel to service with ruthlessness.

And made their lives grievous with hard labour in the clay and bricks, and with all manner of mirth in the field, and with all manner of work, which they laid upon them with
unmercifulness.

And the king of Egypt spake unto the women of Egypt, whose name was Siphra, and the name of the other Puah:

If ye help the women of Egypt, and see in the throne that it is a son, slay him: but if it be a daughter, let her live.

But the wombs feared GOD, and did not as the king of Egypt had said unto them, but let the children live.

Then the king of Egypt called unto the mothers of sorrow, and said unto them: Why do ye this, that ye suffer the children to live?

And the women said unto Pharaoh, The women of Egypt are not like the women of Egypt: for they are hard women: before the mother of sorrow cometh to them, they have given birth.

Therefore God did good unto the worshippers. And the people multiplied and became very many.

And because the women feared God, he built them houses.

And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, Every son that is born cast into the water, and every daughter let live.
(Exodus)
Chapter 2
Moses’ birth, upbringing, escape, and marriage.

And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took a daughter of Levi.

And the woman conceived, and bare a son. And when she saw that it was a fine child, she hid him three months.

And when she could hide him no longer, she made a little box of reed, and glued it together with clay and pitch, and put the child therein, and laid him in the reeds by the riverside.

But his sister stood afar off, to know how he was.

And Pharaoh’s daughter went down to bathe in the water, and her maidens walked by the brink of the water. And when she saw the box in the reeds, she sent her maid to fetch it.

And when she had opened it, she saw the child; and, behold, the babe wept. And she mourned, and said, There is one of the children of Egypt.

And his sister said unto Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call one of the women of Egypt that suckle, that she may suckle thy young child?

And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Go thy way. And the damsel went and called the mother of the child.

And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take the young child, and suckle it, and I will reward thee. And the woman took the child, and suckled it.

And when the child was grown, she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son; and she called his name Moses; for she said: I drew him out of the water.

In those days, when Moses was grown up, he went out unto his brethren, and saw their burden, and perceived that an Egyptian smote one of his brethren the children of Egypt.

And he turned to and fro, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and buried him in the sand.

And the next day he went out, and saw two men of the Jews quarrelling together: and he said unto the unjust man: Why smitest thou thy neighbour?

And he said, Who made thee ruler or judge over us? wilt thou slay me also, as thou slewest the Egyptian? And Moses was afraid, and said, How is this thing spoken?

And it came to pass before Pharaoh, that he sought Moses to slay him. And Moses fled from Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian, and dwelt by a well.

And the priest that was in Midian had seven daughters, which came to draw water, and filled the gutters to water their father’s sheep.

And the shepherds came, and thrust them away. But Moses arose, and helped them, and watered their sheep.

And when they were come to Reguel their father, he said, How came ye so soon this day?

And they said: An Egyptian man delivered us from the shepherds, and drew us, and watered
the sheep.

And he said unto his daughters: Where is he? Why have ye left the man, that ye invited him not to eat with us?

And Moses consented to abide with the man. And he gave unto Moses his daughter Ziporah.

And she bare a son, and called his name Gershom: for he said: I am become a stranger in a strange land. (And she bare another son, and he called his name Eliezer, and said, The God of my father is my helper, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharaoh.) 23. And after a long time the king died in Egypt. And the children of Israel groaned over their work, and cried out; and their crying over their work came before God.

And God heard their lamentations, and remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

And he looked, and took care of them.
(Exodus)
Chapter 3
Moses is called to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt.

Now Moses was tending the sheep of Jethro his brother-in-law the priest of Midian, and he drove the sheep behind him into the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a fiery flame out of the bush. And he saw that the bush burned with fire, and was not consumed.

And he said: I will go and see this great vision, why the bush burneth not.

And when the LORD saw that he went to see, God called unto him out of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he answered, Here am I.

And he said, Come not near. Put off thy shoes from off thy feet: for the place where thou standest up is a holy land.

And he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses covered his face, because he feared to look upon God.

And the LORD said: I have seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry against them that do them wrong; I have known their sorrow.

And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of this land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey, unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Because the cry of the children of Israel is come before me, and I have seen their fear, as they feared the Egyptians,

So go now, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, to bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and bring the