10
When a famine spread over the land of Canaan they went down to Egypt and lived there as long as they had food. There they became so great a multitude that their race could not be counted.
11
So the king of Egypt became hostile to them; he exploited them and forced them to make bricks.
12
They cried out to their God, and he afflicted the whole land of Egypt with incurable plagues. So the Egyptians drove them out of their sight.
14
and he led them by the way of Sinai and Kadesh-barnea. They drove out all the people of the desert,
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