Exodus 1:10-12

New King James Version

^10 (A)come, let us ^(B)deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.” ¹¹ Therefore they set taskmasters over them ^(C)to afflict them with their ^(D)burdens. And they built for Pharaoh ^(E)supply cities, Pithom ^(F)and Raamses. ¹² But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel.