And He said to Abram, Knowing you must know that your seed shall be a sojourner in a land not theirs; and they shall serve them. And they shall afflict them four hundred years;
and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I shall add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, and I will chastise you with scorpions.
And they made their lives bitter by hard service, in clay, and in bricks, and in all work in the field; all their work which they made them do with harshness.