¹⁵ how our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians oppressed us and our ancestors,^(A)

⁶ When the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, by imposing hard labor on us,^(A)

⁴⁰ The time that the Israelites had lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.^(A)

⁶ They also took their livestock and the goods that they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they came into Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him,^(A)

¹⁵ so Jacob went down to Egypt. He himself died there as well as our ancestors,^(A)

¹³ Then the Lord^[a] said to Abram, “Know this for certain, that your offspring shall be aliens in a land that is not theirs and shall be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years,^(A)

¹⁹ He dealt craftily with our people and forced our ancestors to abandon their infants so that they would die.^(A)

¹³ Is it too little that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also lord it over us?^(A)

⁵ We remember the fish we used to eat in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic,^(A)

¹⁴ And the Israelite supervisors whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them were beaten and were asked, “Why did you not finish the required quantity of bricks yesterday and today, as you did before?”^(A)