Exodus 1:8-14
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
8 A new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt. 9 He said to his people, ‘Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and powerful than we are.(A) 10 Come, let’s deal shrewdly with them; otherwise they will multiply further, and when war breaks out, they will join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.’(B) 11 So the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labour.(C) They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities(D) for Pharaoh. 12 But the more they oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread so that the Egyptians came to dread[a] the Israelites. 13 They worked the Israelites ruthlessly(E) 14 and made their lives bitter with difficult labour in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.(F)
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- 1:12 Or Egyptians loathed
Acts 7:19
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
19 He dealt deceitfully with our race and oppressed our ancestors by making them abandon their infants outside so that they wouldn’t survive.(A)
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