Exodus 1:10-12

Jubilee Bible 2000

¹⁰ Now, therefore, let us be wise concerning him, that he not multiply and it come to pass that when war comes, he shall also join with our enemies and fight against us and so leave the land.

¹¹ Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built the supply cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

¹² But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew, so much that they loathed the sons of Israel.