rsv Exodus:1:11-14-16
rsv@Exodus:1:11 @ Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens; and they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Ra-am'ses.
rsv@Exodus:1:12 @ 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.
rsv@Exodus:1:13 @ So they made the people of Israel serve with rigor,
rsv@Exodus:1:14 @ and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field; in all their work they made them serve with rigor.