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Now there arose vp a new King ouer Egypt, which knew not Ioseph.

And he said vnto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are moe and mightier then we.

Come on, let vs deale wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to passe that when there falleth out any warre, they ioyne also vnto our enemies, and fight against vs, and so get them vp out of the land.

Therefore they did set ouer them task-masters, to afflict them with their burdens: And they built for Pharaoh treasure-cities, Pithom and Raamses.

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew: and they were grieued because of the children of Israel.

And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serue with rigour.

And they made their liues bitter, with hard bondage, in morter and in bricke, and in all maner of seruice in the fielde: all their seruice wherein they made them serue, was with rigour.