Exodus 1:6-8

Contemporary English Version

⁶After Joseph, his brothers, and everyone else in that generation had died, ⁷^(A) the people of Israel became so numerous that the whole region of Goshen was full of them.

⁸^(B) Many years later a new king came to power. He did not know what Joseph had done for Egypt,

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Exodus 1:6-8

New International Version

⁶Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,^(A) ⁷but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers^(B) and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.

⁸Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.^(C)

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