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Exodus 1:8
Now a new king came to power in Egypt, who had no knowledge of Joseph.
Exodus 1:8 · Bible in Basic English
Exodus 1:8 in other translations
Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
Then a new king, who did not know Joseph, came to power in Egypt.
Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.
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In context
5 All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph had come to Egypt before them.
6 Then Joseph came to his end, and all his brothers, and all that generation.
7 And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.
8 Now a new king came to power in Egypt, who had no knowledge of Joseph.
9 And he said to his people, See, the people of Israel are greater in number and in power than we are:
10 Let us take care for fear that their numbers may become even greater, and if there is a war, they may be joined with those who are against us, and make an attack on us, and go up out of the land.
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.
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