영어성경공부 (출애굽기 1장)

NIV Bible

Exodus 1

The Isrealites Oppressed

* oppressed: 억압당하는, 탄압받는

 

1. These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:

2. Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah;

3. Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin;

4. Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.

5. The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.

6. Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,

7. but the Israelites were fruitful and multiplied greatly and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.

* exceedingly: 극도로, 대단히

* numerous: 많은

 

8. Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt.

9. 'Look,' he said to his people, 'the Israelites have become much too numerous for us.

10. Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.'

* shrewdly: 약삭빠르게, 빈틈없이

 

11. So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

* store city: 국고성[창고 성]: 국가에서 필요로 하는 식량과 무기들을 공급 또는 보관했던 성읍

 

12. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites

* dread: (~을) 몹시 무서워하다, (안 좋은 일이 생길까 봐) 두려워하다

 

13. and worked them ruthlessly.

* work: (타) (특히 아주 열심히 힘들게)일을 하게 하다

* ruthlessly: 무자비하게, 잔인하게

 

14. They made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their hard labor the Egyptians used them ruthlessly.

* mortar: <벽·벽돌을> 회반죽으로 붙이다[접합하다]

 

15. The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,

16. 'When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth and observe them on the delivery stool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.'

* delivery: 출산, 분만

* stool: (등받이와 팔걸이가 없는) 의자

  - delivery stool: 분만대

 

17. The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live.

18. Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, 'Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?'

19. The midwives answered Pharaoh, 'Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.'

* vigorous: 활발한, 활기찬, 건강한

 

20. So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous.

21. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.

22. Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: 'Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.'