⁶ And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke:

¹¹ So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.

¹⁴ And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.

¹⁶ When you are looking after the Hebrew women in childbirth, if it is a son you are to put him to death; but if it is a daughter, she may go on living.

²² And Pharaoh gave orders to all his people, saying, Every son who comes to birth is to be put into the river, but every daughter may go on living.

⁹ Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words.

¹⁹ Then the responsible men of the children of Israel saw that they were purposing evil when they said, The number of bricks which you have to make every day will be no less than before.

²³ For from the time when I came to Pharaoh to put your words before him, he has done evil to this people, and you have given them no help.

²⁰ But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out of Egypt, to be to him the people of his heritage, as you are today.