Exodus 1:10-12

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁰ “Come, let us work wisely with them, lest they multiply and it happens that if there is war, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us and get themselves out of the land.”

¹¹ Therefore, they set taskmasters over them, to keep them under with burdens. And they built the cities Pithom and Raamses for the treasures of Pharaoh.

¹² But the more they burdened them, the more they multiplied and grew. Therefore, they were more grieved against the children of Israel.