Exodus 1:5–14

⁵And all the souls that came out of Jacob’s thigh, were seventy: but Joseph was in Egypt.

⁶After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,

⁷The children of Israel increased, and sprung up into multitudes, and growing exceedingly strong they filled the land.

⁸In the mean time there arose a new king over Egypt, that knew not Joseph:

⁹And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we.

¹⁰Come let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome us, depart out of the land.

¹¹Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens: and they built for Pharoah cities of tabernacles, Phithom, and Ramesses.

¹²But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied and increased.

¹³And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them:

¹⁴And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.