Exodus 1:7-12 And the Israelites were fruitful and multiplied and were many and were very, very numerous, and the land was filled with them.

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁷ And the Israelites were fruitful and multiplied and were many and were very, very numerous, and the land was filled with them. ⁸ A new king, who knew nothing about Joseph, began to rule in Egypt. ⁹ And he said to his people, "Look, the people of the Israelites are greater and more numerous than us. ¹⁰ Come on, let's be careful how we treat them, so that when they grow numerous, if a war breaks out they won't join our enemies, fight against us, and leave our land." ¹¹ So the Egyptians put slave masters over them in order to oppress them through forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply (storage) cities for Pharaoh. ¹² But the more they vexed them, the more they multiplied and grew: so that they abhorred the children of Israel.