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Exodus 1:12

American Standard Version

But 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.

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Exodus 1:12 in other translations

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.

Exodus 1:12 · World English Bible

Exodus 1:12 in context

  1. 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.
  2. 11Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.
  3. 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.
  4. 13And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor:
  5. 14and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor.