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Exodus 1:12
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.
Exodus 1:12 · World English Bible
Exodus 1:12 in other translations
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.
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In context
9 He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
10 Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”
11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.
13 The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,
14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
15 The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,
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