World English Bible
Exodus 1:11
“Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.”
Verse in context — Exodus 1
9
He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
10
Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land.
11
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
12
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.
13
The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,
About Exodus
God delivers Israel from Egypt, gives the Ten Commandments, and establishes His covenant with His people.
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