Exodus 1:11 “So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress…”

Exodus 1:11

So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore did they set taskemasters ouer them, to keepe the vnder with burdens: and they built the cities Pithom and Raamses for the treasures of Pharaoh.

Darby Translation

And they set over them service-masters to oppress them with their burdens. And they built store-cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Rameses.

Young's Literal Translation

And they set over it princes of tribute, so as to afflict it with their burdens, and it buildeth store-cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses;

Bible in Basic English

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.

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Cross references

“to afflict”

Genesis 15:13 Exodus 3:7 Deuteronomy 26:6 Numbers 20:15 Exodus 5:15

Genesis 15:13 · BSB

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

Exodus 3:7 · BSB

The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

Deuteronomy 26:6 · BSB

But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor.

Numbers 20:15 · BSB

how our fathers went down to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers,

Exodus 5:15 · BSB

So the Israelite foremen went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way?

“burdens”

Exodus 2:11 Psalm 81:6 Psalm 68:13 Psalm 105:13 Exodus 5:4 Exodus 5:5

Exodus 2:11 · BSB

One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

Psalm 81:6 · BSB

“I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.

Psalm 68:13 · BSB

Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and her feathers with shimmering gold.”

Psalm 105:13 · BSB

they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

Exodus 5:4 · BSB

But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away from their work? Get back to your labor!”

Exodus 5:5 · BSB

Pharaoh also said, “Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you would be stopping them from their labor.”

“Raamses”

Genesis 47:11 Proverbs 27:4

Genesis 47:11 · BSB

So Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

Proverbs 27:4 · BSB

Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?

Also

2 Chronicles 8:4 1 Kings 9:19 Exodus 6:6–7

2 Chronicles 8:4 · BSB

He built Tadmor in the wilderness, in addition to all the store cities that he had built in Hamath.

1 Kings 9:19 · BSB

as well as all the store cities that Solomon had for his chariots and horses —whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.

Exodus 6:6–7 · BSB

Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country. ”

12But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.

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