Exodus 1:9-11

Revised Geneva Translation

⁹ And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are greater and mightier than us.

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.