1:8 Then a new king, ⁴  who did not know about ⁵  Joseph, came to power ⁶  over Egypt. 1:9 He said ⁷  to his people, “Look at ⁸  the Israelite people, more numerous and stronger than we are! 1:10 Come, let’s deal wisely ⁹  with them. Otherwise ¹⁰  they will continue to multiply, ¹¹  and if ¹²  a war breaks out, they will ally themselves with ¹³  our enemies and fight against us and leave ¹⁴  the country.”

1:11 So they put foremen ¹⁵  over the Israelites ¹⁶  to oppress ¹⁷  them with hard labor. As a result ¹⁸  they built Pithom and Rameses ¹⁹  as store cities for Pharaoh. 1:12 But the more the Egyptians ²⁰  oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. ²¹  As a result the Egyptians loathed ²²  the Israelites,