10 Come, let us work wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that if there be war, they join themselves also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and [a][b]get them out of the land.

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

12 But the more they vexed them, the more they multiplied and grew: therefore [d]they were more grieved against the children of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 1:10 Into Canaan, and so we shall lose our commodity.
  2. Exodus 1:10 Or, go up out of the land.
  3. Exodus 1:11 Or, corn and provision.
  4. Exodus 1:12 The more that God blesseth his, the more doth the wicked envy them.

10 Come, we must deal shrewdly(A) with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”(B)

11 So they put slave masters(C) over them to oppress them with forced labor,(D) and they built Pithom and Rameses(E) as store cities(F) for Pharaoh. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites

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