11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to ^jafflict them with heavy ^kburdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.

Moses Flees to Midian

11 ^aOne day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their ^bburdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.¹

4 But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your ^kburdens.”

6 Say therefore to the people of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and ^bI will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of ^cjudgment.