Exodus 1:8-14
8And a new aking arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9aAnd 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.” 11So they appointed ataskmasters over them to afflict them with 1,bhard labors. And they built for Pharaoh cstorage cities, Pithom and dRaamses. 12But 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. 13So the Egyptians brutally compelled the sons of Israel ato slave labor; 14and 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.