The World English Bible (WEB): Exodus
Book 02 Exodus 001:001 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): 001:002 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 001:003 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 001:004 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 001:005 All the souls who came out of Jacob's body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already. 001:006 Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation. 001:007 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them. 001:008 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn't know Joseph. 001:009 He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. 001:010 Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land." 001:011 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities
and led them around it, giving orders; thence to the arbor, where I
bade them sit down.
In the year of 1805 Mr. Jefferson, as president of the Philosophical
Society, ordered excavations to be made at Big Bone Lick in Kentucky
for the skeletons of extinct animals. My father, who was interested in
antiquities, had had much correspondence with Mr. Jefferson in regard
to earlier discoveries at that spot; and when this expedition was
undertaken he formed one of the explorers. Jack, his servant, at that
time a strapping young fellow, had been taken along as one of the
negroes who were to do the digging.
The wonders then unearthed have always been the greenest spot in old
Jack's memory; so that they have been growing larger ever since.
Whenever I wish to hear him discourse with the dogmatic bluster of a
sage who had original information as to geological times, I set Jack to
talking about the bones of the Mastodon-Maximus, the name of which he
gets from me, with a puzzled shake of his head, about regularly once a
year. It is my private opinion that old Jack believes Big Bone Lick to
have been the place where the Ark settled, and these to have been the
bones of animals that had been swept out by Noah on landing.
Last night I had merely to ask him whether he credited the story of an
old traveller that he had once used some ribs found there for his
tent-poles and a tooth for his hominy beater; whereupon Dilsy,
foreseeing what was coming, excused herself on the plea of sudden
Book 02 Exodus 001:001 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): 001:002 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 001:003 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 001:004 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 001:005 All the souls who came out of Jacob's body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already. 001:006 Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation. 001:007 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them. 001:008 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn't know Joseph. 001:009 He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. 001:010 Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land." 001:011 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities