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Exodus 1:10

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Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”

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Exodus 1:10 in other translations

come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.

Exodus 1:10 · American Standard Version

Exodus 1:10 in context

  1. 8Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.
  2. 9He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
  3. 10Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”
  4. 11Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
  5. 12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.