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

¹³ Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly ^(A)that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and ^(B)they will afflict them four hundred years.

¹¹ And Joseph situated his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of ^(A)Rameses, ^(B)as Pharaoh had commanded.

⁷ And the Lord said: ^(A)“I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry ^(B)because of their taskmasters, ^(C)for I know their ^[a]sorrows.

Moses Flees to Midian^(A)

¹¹ Now it came to pass in those days, ^(B)when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

⁶ But the ^(A)Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us.

^15 (A)how our fathers went down to Egypt, ^(B)and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, ^(C)and the Egyptians ^[a]afflicted us and our fathers.

⁶ Therefore say to the children of Israel: ^(A)‘I am the Lord; ^(B)I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will ^(C)rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with ^[a]an outstretched arm and with great judgments. ⁷ I will ^(D)take you as My people, and ^(E)I will be your God. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God who brings you out ^(F)from under the burdens of the Egyptians.