Exodus 1
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Exodus 1:11-12

11So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

12But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites

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