Exodus 1:8-14

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8 And a new ^aking arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9 ^aAnd he said to his people, “Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are ¹more and mightier than we. 10 Come, let us ^adeal wisely with them, lest they multiply and it be ¹in the event of war, that they also join themselves to those who hate us and fight against us and ^bgo up from the land.” 11 So they appointed ^ataskmasters over them to afflict them with ¹^bhard labors. And they built for Pharaoh ^cstorage cities, Pithom and ^dRaamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, ^athe more they multiplied and the more they ¹spread out, so that they were in dread of the sons of Israel. 13 So the Egyptians brutally compelled the sons of Israel ^ato slave labor; 14 and they made ^atheir lives bitter with ¹hard slave labor in mortar and bricks and in all kinds of slave labor in the field, all their slave labor which they brutally ²compelled them to do.