Shemot 1:9-11

Orthodox Jewish Bible

⁹ And he said unto his people, Hinei, the Am Bnei Yisroel are more and stronger than we.

¹⁰ Come, let us outsmart them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any milchamah, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.

¹¹ Therefore they did set over them sarei missim (taskmasters) to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pitom and Raamses.