Exodus 1:13-15

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹³ The Egyptians compelled the sons of Israel ^(A)to labor rigorously; ¹⁴ and they made ^(B)their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they rigorously ^[a]imposed on them.

¹⁵ Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom ^[b]was named Shiphrah and the other ^[c]was named Puah;