⁸ Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.

⁹ And he said unto his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

¹⁰ Come on, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply and it come to pass, when there befalleth any war, that they join also unto our enemies and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.”

¹¹ Therefore they set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

¹² But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew; and they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

¹³ And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor.

¹⁴ And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar and in brick and in all manner of service in the field; all their service wherein they made them serve was with rigor.