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Exodus 1:13

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

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  1. Exodus 1:11

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

  2. Exodus 1:12

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

  3. Exodus 1:14

    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.

  4. Exodus 1:15

    And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

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