"The children of Israel were fruitful and swarmed and increased and became very very strong, and the land became filled with them.
A new king arose over Egypt, who did not know about Joseph.
He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more numerous and stronger than we are.
Get ready, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they increase, and a war befall us, and they join our enemies and wage war against us and depart from the land."
So they appointed over them tax collectors to afflict them with their burdens, and they built store cities for Pharaoh, namely Pithom and Raamses.
But as much as they would afflict them, so did they multiply and so did they gain strength, and they were disgusted because of the children of Israel.
So the Egyptians enslaved the children of Israel with back breaking labor." -Shemot 6-13
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