¹³ And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them:

¹⁴ And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay, and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.

¹⁵ And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,