Exodus 1:9-11

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁹ He said to his people, “There are too many Israelites, and they are stronger than we are. ¹⁰ We have to outsmart them, or they’ll increase in number. Then, if war breaks out, they will join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”

¹¹ So the Egyptians put slave drivers in charge of them in order to oppress them through forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities for Pharaoh.