11 Therefore did they set taskmasters over them, to keep them under with burdens: and they built the cities Pithom and Raamses for the [a]treasures of Pharaoh.

12 But the more they vexed them, the more they multiplied and grew: therefore [b]they were more grieved against the children of Israel.

13 Wherefore the Egyptians by cruelty caused the children of Israel to serve.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 1:11 Or, corn and provision.
  2. Exodus 1:12 The more that God blesseth his, the more doth the wicked envy them.

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