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Exodus 1:11

American Standard Version

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.

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Exodus 1:11 in other translations

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

Exodus 1:11 · World English Bible

Exodus 1:11 in context

  1. 9And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
  2. 10come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.
  3. 11Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.
  4. 12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
  5. 13And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor: