Exodus 1:1

Verse 1 of 22. The 1st of 40 chapters in Exodus, in The Law.

1Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.

2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

4Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

5And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

Read Exodus 1

King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.