Exodus 1:11-14

New Catholic Bible

¹¹ So taskmasters were set over the children of Israel to wear them down with forced labor. They built the supply cities^[a] of Pithom and Raameses for Pharaoh. ¹² But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and grew beyond measure. The Egyptians began to dread the presence of the children of Israel ¹³ and therefore put them to work, treating them harshly. ¹⁴ They made their lives difficult and forced them to make clay bricks and to do all kinds of work in the fields. They forced them to do every type of harsh work.