Exodus 1:8-11

8Eventually, a new king came to power in Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph or what he had done.

9He said to his people, “Look, the people of Israel now outnumber us and are stronger than we are.

10We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more. If we don’t, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us. Then they will escape from the country.”

11So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor. They forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king.