Exodus 1
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Exodus 1:10-11

10Come, let us 1deal 2shrewdly with them, otherwise they will multiply, and 3in the event of war, they will also join those who hate us, and fight against us and 4depart from the land.”

11So they appointed 5taskmasters over them to oppress them with 67hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh 8storage cities, Pithom and 9Raamses.

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Notes

  1. 1. Exodus 1:10 Acts 7:19 ↩
  2. 2. Exodus 1:10 Or wisely ↩
  3. 3. Exodus 1:10 Lit it will come about when war occurs that ↩
  4. 4. Exodus 1:10 Lit go up from ↩
  5. 5. Exodus 1:11 Gen 15:13; Ex 3:7; 5:6 ↩
  6. 6. Exodus 1:11 Lit their burdens ↩
  7. 7. Exodus 1:11 Ex 1:14; 2:11; 5:4-9; 6:6f ↩
  8. 8. Exodus 1:11 1 Kin 9:19; 2 Chr 8:4 ↩
  9. 9. Exodus 1:11 Gen 47:11 ↩

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