Exodus 1:9-11

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁹ And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we.

¹⁰ Come, let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome us, depart out of the land.

¹¹ Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens, and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom and Ramesses.