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.”(A) 11 So the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor.(B) They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities(C) 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.

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  1. 1:12 Or Egyptians loathed

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