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Exodus 1:11

PharaohPithomRaamses
Suffering

9 “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.

10 Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”

So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.

13 They worked the Israelites ruthlessly

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BSB
So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
KJV
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
WEB
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
ASV
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.
DARBY
And they set over them service-masters to oppress them with their burdens. And they built store-cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Rameses.
BLB
And they set over him chiefs of forced labor in order to afflict them with their burdens. And they built store cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Rameses.
ÅB
Så satte de arbeidsfogder over dem til å plage dem med tvangsarbeid; og de måtte bygge for Farao to byer til opplagssteder, Pitom og Ra'amses.
OTB
Så satte de arbeidsledere over dem for å undertrykke dem med tvangsarbeid, og de bygde lagerbyer for farao, Pitom og Ramses.
B1930
Så satte de arbeidsfogder over dem til å plage dem med tvangsarbeid; og de måtte bygge for Farao to byer til oplagssteder, Pitom og Ra'amses.

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Cross references

  • Genesis 15:13

    Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

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  • Genesis 47:11

    So Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

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  • Exodus 3:7

    The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

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  • Exodus 2:11

    One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

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  • Deuteronomy 26:6

    But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor.

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  • Psalms 81:6

    “I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.

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  • Numbers 20:15

    how our fathers went down to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers,

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  • 2 Chronicles 8:4

    He built Tadmor in the wilderness, in addition to all the store cities that he had built in Hamath.

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