Exodus 1: 8 - 14, 22
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| 8
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Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
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| 9
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And he said to his people, "Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us.
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| 10
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Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war befall us, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land."
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| 11
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Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens; and they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Ra-am'ses.
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| 12
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But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.
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| 13
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So they made the people of Israel serve with rigor,
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| 14
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and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field; in all their work they made them serve with rigor.
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| 22
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Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live."
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