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Exodus 1:12
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
Exodus 1:12 · Webster 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 started to dread the children of Israel.
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In context
9 And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel [are] more and mightier than we.
10 Come, let us deal wisely with them: lest they multiply, and it shall come to pass, that when there falleth out any war, they will join with our enemies, and fight against us, and depart from the land.
11 Therefore they set over them task-masters, to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure-cities, Pithom, and Raamses.
12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor.
14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service in which they made them serve, [was] with rigor.
15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives (of which the name of one [was] Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:)
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