They took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan and went to Egypt. Jacob took all his descendants with him:

Then Jacob went to Egypt, where he and his sons died.

The LORD said to him, "Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land; they will be slaves there and will be treated cruelly for four hundred years.

The Israelites had lived in Egypt for 430 years.

In Egypt we used to eat all the fish we wanted, and it cost us nothing. Remember the cucumbers, the watermelons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic we had?

Isn't it enough that you have brought us out of the fertile land of Egypt to kill us here in the wilderness? Do you also have to lord it over us?

So the Egyptians put slave drivers over them to crush their spirits with hard labor. The Israelites built the cities of Pithom and Rameses to serve as supply centers for the king.

and made their lives miserable by forcing them into cruel slavery. They made them work on their building projects and in their fields, and they had no pity on them.

The Egyptian slave drivers beat the Israelite foremen, whom they had put in charge of the work. They demanded, "Why aren't you people making the same number of bricks that you made before?"

The Egyptians treated us harshly and forced us to work as slaves.

He tricked our ancestors and was cruel to them, forcing them to put their babies out of their homes, so that they would die.