Exo 1:11-12 | ESV | STEP | Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities , Pithom and Raamses .

‏ Exodus 1:11-12

11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them ^ato afflict them with heavy ^bburdens. They built for Pharaoh ^cstore cities, Pithom and ^dRaamses. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.