⁶Then Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died. ^e⁷But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied, and became extremely numerous ^fso that the land was filled with them.

⁸A new king, who had not known Joseph, came to power in Egypt. ⁹He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and powerful than we are. ^g¹⁰Let us deal shrewdly with them; otherwise they will multiply further, and if war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.” ^h¹¹So the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. ⁱThey built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities ^jfor Pharaoh. ¹²But the more they oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread so that the Egyptians came to dread ^kthe Israelites. ¹³They worked the Israelites ruthlessly ^l¹⁴and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them. ^m

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Footnotes

b1:5 of people issuing from Jacob’s loins
c1:5 , read 75; Gn 46:27; Ac 7:14
k1:12 Or Egyptians loathed

Cross references

a1:1 Gn 46:8
d1:5 Gn 46:26–27; Dt 10:22
e1:6 Gn 50:26
f1:7 Gn 12:2; 46:3; Dt 26:5; Ac 7:17
g1:9 Ps 105:24
h1:10 Ps 83:3–4; Ac 7:19
i1:11 Gn 15:13; Ex 2:11; 3:7; 5:4–5; 6:6; Dt 26:6
j1:11 Gn 47:11; 1Kg 9:19; 2Ch 8:4
l1:13 Dt 4:20
m1:14 Ex 2:23; Nm 20:15; Ac 7:19