Exodus 1:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ So they set over [the Israelites] taskmasters to afflict and oppress them with [increased] burdens. And [the Israelites] built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.

Common English Bible

¹¹ As a result, the Egyptians put foremen of forced work gangs over the Israelites to harass them with hard work. They had to build storage cities named Pithom and Rameses for Pharaoh.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ And so he set over them masters of the works, in order to afflict them with burdens. And they built for Pharaoh the cities of the tabernacles: Pithom and Raamses.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens. And they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom and Ramesses.

Exodus 1:11 Cross References

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know this for certain, that your offspring shall be aliens in a land that is not theirs and shall be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years,

Genesis 47:11

Joseph settled his father and his brothers and granted them a holding in the land of Egypt, in the best part of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had instructed.

1 Kings 9:19

as well as all of Solomon’s storage cities, the cities for his chariots, the cities for his cavalry, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

2 Chronicles 16:4

Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel. They conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.

2 Chronicles 8:4

He built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage towns that he built in Hamath.

Psalm 105:13

wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,

Psalm 129:1

Often have they attacked me from my youth —let Israel now say—

Psalm 129:2

often have they attacked me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.

Psalm 68:13

though they stay among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with green gold.

Psalm 81:6

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

Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with hard servitude in mortar and bricks and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.

Exodus 2:11

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

Exodus 3:7

Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings,

Exodus 5:10

So the taskmasters and the supervisors of the people went out and said to the people, “Thus says Pharaoh: I will not give you straw.

Exodus 5:15

Then the Israelite supervisors came to Pharaoh and cried, “Why do you treat your servants like this?

Exodus 5:8

But you shall require of them the same quantity of bricks as they have made previously; do not diminish it, for they are lazy; that is why they cry, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Numbers 20:15

how our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians oppressed us and our ancestors,

Deuteronomy 26:6

When the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, by imposing hard labor on us,