Exodus 1:8-14 (New International Version)
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Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt.1
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"Look," he said to his people, "the Israelites have become much too numerous2 for us.3
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Come, we must deal shrewdly4 with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country."5
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So they put slave masters6 over them to oppress them with forced labor,7 and they built Pithom and Rameses8 as store cities9 for Pharaoh.
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But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites
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and worked them ruthlessly.10
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They made their lives bitter with hard labor11 in brick12 and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their hard labor the Egyptians used them ruthlessly.13
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