Exodus:1:10-16

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* Come on , let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply , and it come to pass , that , when there falleth out any war , they join also unto our enemies , and fight against us , and so get them up out of the land . * Therefore they did set over them taskmasters mac # to afflict them with their burdens . And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities , Pithom and Raamses Ra #m @cec #. * But the more they afflicted them , the more they multiplied and grew . And they were grieved because of the children of Israel Yisra #el #. * And the Egyptians madethe children of Israel to serve with rigour : * 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 . * 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 Puw #ah #: * And he said , When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women , and see them upon the stools ; if it be a son , then ye shall kill him : but if it be a daughter , then she shall live .

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