Exodus 1:9-11

21st Century King James Version

⁹ And he said unto his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

¹⁰ Come on, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply and it come to pass, when there befalleth any war, that they join also unto our enemies and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.”

¹¹ Therefore they set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.