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.
12. But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied, and increased:
13. And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them:
14. And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay, and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.
15. And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua,
16. Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive.