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Welcome to Swahili Bible site! Swahili, also known as Kiswahili, is a Bantu language and the first language of the Swahili people. It is a lingua franca of the African Great Lakes region and other parts of eastern and southeastern Africa, including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is estimated that around 15 Million users speak it. The New Testament was first translated into Swahili around 1850. United Bible Societies is working towards making this Bible available to all who need it.

Bible Society of Kenya

Bible Society of Kenya

Bible House, Langata Road
Madaraka, Nairobi
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1These are the names of the sons of Israel that came into Egypt together with Jacob their father; they came in each with their whole family. 2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, 3Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, 4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5But Joseph was in Egypt. And all the souls born of Jacob were seventy-five. 6And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. 7And the children of Israel increased and multiplied, and became numerous and grew exceedingly strong, and the land multiplied them. 8And there arose up another king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. 9And he said to his nation, Behold, the race of the children of Israel is a great multitude, and is stronger than we: 10come then, let us deal craftily with them, lest at any time they be increased, and whensoever war shall happen to us, these also shall be added to our enemies, and having prevailed against us in war, they will depart out of the land. 11And he set over them taskmasters, who should afflict them in their works; and they built strong cities for Pharaoh, both Pithom, and Rameses, and On, which is Heliopolis. 12But as they humbled them, by so much they multiplied, and grew exceedingly strong; and the Egyptians greatly abhorred the children of Israel. 13And the Egyptians tyrannized over the children of Israel by force. 14And they embittered their life by hard labors, in the clay and in brickmaking, and all the works in the plains, according to all the works, wherein they caused them to serve with violence.

15And the king of the Egyptians spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews; the name of the one was, Shiphrah; and the name of the second, Puah. 16And he said, When ye do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and they are about to be delivered, if it be a male, kill it; but if a female, save it. 17But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt appointed them; and they saved the male children alive. 18And the king of Egypt called the midwives, and said to them, Why is it that ye have done this thing, and saved the male children alive? 19And the midwives said to Pharaoh, The Hebrew women are not as the women of Egypt, for they are delivered before the midwives go in to them. So they bore children. 20And God did well to the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very strong. 21And as the midwives feared God, they established for themselves families. 22And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Whatever male child shall be born to the Hebrews, cast into the river; and every female, save it alive.