Exodus 1:13-15

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹³ They worked the Israelites ruthlessly^{(A) 14} and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.^(B)

¹⁵ Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,