Exodus 1:8-14
Legacy Standard Bible
8 And a new (A)king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9 (B)And 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, lest they multiply and it be [b]in the event of war, that they also join themselves to those who hate us and fight against us and (D)go up from the land.” 11 So they appointed (E)taskmasters over them to afflict them with [c](F)hard labors. And they built for Pharaoh (G)storage cities, Pithom and (H)Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, (I)the more they multiplied and the more they [d]spread out, so that they were in dread of the sons of Israel. 13 So the Egyptians brutally compelled the sons of Israel (J)to slave labor; 14 and they made (K)their lives bitter with [e]hard slave labor in mortar and bricks and in all kinds of slave labor in the field, all their slave labor which they brutally [f]compelled them to do.
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- Exodus 1:9 Or too many and too mighty for us
- Exodus 1:10 Lit when war befalls that
- Exodus 1:11 Lit their burdens
- Exodus 1:12 Lit broke forth
- Exodus 1:14 Lit stiff
- Exodus 1:14 Lit worked through them
Exodus 1:8-14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Israelites Are Oppressed
8 Now a new king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph.(A) 9 He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we.(B) 10 Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.” 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh.(C) 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites. 13 The Egyptians subjected the Israelites to hard servitude 14 and made their lives bitter with hard servitude in mortar and bricks and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.(D)
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