^{11 Ref} 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.

^{12 Ref} But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians.

^{13 Ref} And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:

^{14 Ref} 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.