New American Standard Bible 2020

Exodus 1:10-14

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 6 7hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh 8storage cities, Pithom and 9Raamses. 12But the more they oppressed them, 10the more they multiplied and the more they 11spread out, so that they dreaded the sons of Israel. 13The Egyptians 12used violence to compel the sons of Israel 13to labor; 14and they made 14their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they violently had them perform as slaves.

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1. Exodus 1:10 Acts 7:19 ↩
2. Exodus 1:10 Or wisely ↩
3. Exodus 1:10 Lit it will come about when war occurs that ↩
4. Exodus 1:10 Lit go up from ↩
5. Exodus 1:11 Gen 15:13; Ex 3:7; 5:6 ↩
6. Exodus 1:11 Lit their burdens ↩
7. Exodus 1:11 Ex 1:14; 2:11; 5:4-9; 6:6f ↩
8. Exodus 1:11 1 Kin 9:19; 2 Chr 8:4 ↩
9. Exodus 1:11 Gen 47:11 ↩
10. Exodus 1:12 Ex 1:7 ↩
11. Exodus 1:12 Lit broke forth ↩
12. Exodus 1:13 Lit with violence compelled ↩
13. Exodus 1:13 Gen 15:13; Deut 4:20 ↩
14. Exodus 1:14 Ex 2:23; 6:9; Num 20:15; Acts 7:19 ↩

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