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Bishops Bible 1568
| 1:1 | These are the names of the children of Israel, whiche came into Egypt with Iacob, euery ma came with his housholde |
| 1:2 | Ruben, Simeon, Leui, and Iuda |
| 1:3 | Isachar, Zabulon, and Beniamin |
| 1:4 | Dan and Nephthali, Gad & Aser |
| 1:5 | All the soules that came out of the line of Iacob, were seuentie |
| 1:6 | But Ioseph was in Egypt alredy, & Ioseph dyed, and all his brethren, and all that generation |
| 1:7 | And the children of Israel were fruitfull, encreased, multiplied, & waxed exceedyng myghtie, and the lande was full of them |
| 1:8 | But there arose vp a newe kyng in Egypt, which knewe not Ioseph |
| 1:9 | And he sayde vnto his folke, Beholde, the people of the chyldren of Israel are greater and myghtier then we |
| 1:10 | Come on, let vs deale wyttyly with the, lest they multiplie, & lest it come to passe, that if there be any warre, they ioyne them selues vnto our enemies, & fight agaynst vs, & so get them vp out of ye land |
| 1:11 | Therfore dyd they set taske maisters ouer them, to kepe the vnder with burthens: And they buylt vnto Pharao treasure cities, Pithom & Raamses |
| 1:12 | But the more they vexed them, the more they multiplied and grewe: so that they abhorred at the syght of the chyldren of Israel |
| 1:13 | And the Egyptians helde the children of Israel in bondage without mercie |
| 1:14 | And they made their lyues bytter vnto them in that cruell bondage, in claye, and bricke, and all maner of worke in the fielde: for all their bondage wherein they serued them was ful of tirannie |
| 1:15 | And the kyng of Egypt spake vnto the mydwyfes of the Hebrues women: (of which the one was named Siphrah and the other Puah) and sayde |
| 1:16 | When ye do the office of a mydwyfe to the women of the Hebrues, and see in the birth tyme that it is a boy, ye shall kyl it: but if it be a daughter, it shal liue |
| 1:17 | Notwithstanding, the mydwifes feared God, and dyd not as the kyng of Egypt commaunded them, but saued the men chyldren |
| 1:18 | And the kyng of Egypt called for the mydwyfes, and sayde vnto them: why haue ye dealt on this maner, and haue saued the men chyldren |
| 1:19 | And the mydwyfes aunswered Pharao: that ye Hebrues women are not as the women of Egypt: for they are more liuely women, and are deliuered yer the mydwyfes come at them |
| 1:20 | And God dealt well therefore with the mydwyfes: and the people multiplied and waxed very myghtie |
| 1:21 | And it came to passe, that because the midwifes feared God, he made them houses |
| 1:22 | And Pharao charged all his people, saying: All the men chyldren that are borne, cast into the ryuer, and saue the mayde chyldren alyue |
Bishops Bible 1568
The Bishops' Bible was produced under the authority of the established Church of England in 1568. It was substantially revised in 1572, and the 1602 edition was prescribed as the base text for the King James Bible completed in 1611. The thorough Calvinism of the Geneva Bible offended the Church of England, to which almost all of its bishops subscribed. They associated Calvinism with Presbyterianism, which sought to replace government of the church by bishops with government by lay elders. However, they were aware that the Great Bible of 1539 , which was the only version then legally authorized for use in Anglican worship, was severely deficient, in that much of the Old Testament and Apocrypha was translated from the Latin Vulgate, rather than from the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. In an attempt to replace the objectionable Geneva translation, they circulated one of their own, which became known as the Bishops' Bible.