Exodus 1:8-14 ▼

8 And there rises a new king over Egypt, who has not known Joseph,

9 and he says to his people, “Behold, the people of the sons of Israel [are] more numerous and mighty than we.

10 Give help! Let us act wisely concerning it, lest it multiply, and it has come to pass, when war happens, that it has been joined, even it, to those hating us, and has fought against us, and has gone up out of the land.”

11 And they set princes of tribute over it, so as to afflict it with their burdens, and it builds the store-cities of Pithom and Rameses for Pharaoh;

12 and as they afflict it, so it multiplies, and so it breaks forth, and they are distressed because of the sons of Israel;

13 and the Egyptians cause the sons of Israel to serve with rigor,

14 and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every [kind] of service in the field; all their service in which they have served [is] with rigor.