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Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

And he said to his people, "Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are too many and too mighty for us.

And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:

"Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, otherwise they will multiply, and in the event of war, they will also join those who hate us, and fight against us and depart from the land."

Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.

So they appointed taskmasters over them to oppress them with hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

But the more they oppressed them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out, so that they dreaded the sons of Israel.

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

The Egyptians used violence to compel the sons of Israel to labor;

And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:

and they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they violently had them perform as slaves.

And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.