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.

11 So they put slave masters(A) over them to oppress them with forced labor,(B) and they built Pithom and Rameses(C) as store cities(D) for Pharaoh. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites 13 and worked them ruthlessly.(E)

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