Jacob's direct descendants seventy: <br />They had their children aplenty. <br />The Israelites in large number, <br />Posed to Egyptians, a certain danger. <br /> <br />A new king came to power, <br />And saw their growing number. <br />'These Israelites are a threat, ' <br />He said, 'To our Country Egypt.' <br /> <br />'In case of war, they could then <br />With our enemies join; <br />To keep their strength down, <br />Now, we should think and plan.' <br /> <br />The king put slave-drivers, <br />To crush the Israelite laborers <br />Of their Spirits, with hard labor; <br />But still, they grew in number. <br /> <br />Their lives became miserable, <br />In the name of slavery horrible. <br />They had to do forced labor <br />Under Egyptian slave-drivers. <br /> <br />To the midwife cadre <br />The king issued an order <br />'Go, kill their new-born boys <br />But spare their girl-babies.' <br /> <br />But fearing God, the midwives <br />Never took their boys' lives. <br />And when he asked them why, <br />They told him a blatant lie. <br /> <br />'Unlike the Egyptian women <br />The hard-working Hebrew women <br />Delivered easily, their children <br />Even before, for their help, we ran.' <br /> <br />The king ordered again <br />'Throw every new-born <br />Hebrew boy into the Nile <br />But spare their baby girl.'<br /><br />Simple Simon<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/b01-the-israelites-are-treated-cruelly-in-egypt/
