Exodus 1:8-14
New American Standard Bible 1995
8 Now a new (A)king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9 (B)He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are [a]more and mightier than we. 10 Come, let us (C)deal wisely with them, or else they will multiply and [b]in the event of war, they will also join themselves to those who hate us, and fight against us and [c]depart from the land.” 11 So they appointed (D)taskmasters over them to afflict them with [d](E)hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh (F)storage cities, Pithom and (G)Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, (H)the more they multiplied and the more they [e]spread out, so that they were in dread of the sons of Israel. 13 The Egyptians compelled the sons of Israel (I)to labor rigorously; 14 and they made (J)their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they rigorously [f]imposed on them.
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- Exodus 1:9 Or too many and too mighty for us
- Exodus 1:10 Lit it came about when war befalls that
- Exodus 1:10 Lit go up from
- Exodus 1:11 Lit their burdens
- Exodus 1:12 Lit broke forth
- Exodus 1:14 Lit worked through them
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