Exo 1:11-14 | ESV | STEP | Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities , Pithom and Raamses .

Exodus 1:11-14

11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them ^ato afflict them with heavy ^bburdens. They built for Pharaoh ^cstore cities, Pithom and ^dRaamses. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel. 13 So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel ^ework as slaves 14 and ^fmade 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.