Exodus 1:13-15

English Standard Version

¹³ So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel ^(A)work as slaves ¹⁴ and ^(B)made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.

¹⁵ Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,