Exodus 1:11-13

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹¹ So they appointed ^(A)taskmasters over them to afflict them with ^[a](B)hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh ^(C)storage cities, Pithom and ^(D)Raamses. ¹² But the more they afflicted them, ^(E)the more they multiplied and the more they ^[b]spread out, so that they were in dread of the sons of Israel. ¹³ The Egyptians compelled the sons of Israel ^(F)to labor rigorously;