⁶ And ^(A)the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor.

¹¹ Therefore they set taskmasters over them ^(A)to afflict them with heavy ^(B)burdens. They built for Pharaoh ^(C)store cities, Pithom and ^(D)Raamses.

¹⁴ and ^(A)made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.

²⁰ But the Lord has taken you and ^(A)brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, ^(B)to be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day.

²³ For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people, and you have not delivered your people at all.”

¹⁹ The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they said, “You shall by no means reduce your number of bricks, your daily task each day.”

⁹ Let heavier work be laid on the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.”

²² Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, ^(A)“Every son that is born to the Hebrews^[a] you shall cast into ^(B)the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”

¹⁶ “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”