And Jehovah said: I have given attention to see the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I have acknowledged their pain.

Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, Why are you dealing thus with your servants?

And He said to Abram: Consider to know that your seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years.

how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt many days, and the Egyptians did evil to us and our fathers.

And the Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid cruel labor upon us.

And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked upon their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

And the king of Egypt said to them, Moses and Aaron, why do you restrain the people from their work? Go to your burdens.

And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land are many now, and you have made them cease from their burdens.

When you lie down among the sheepfolds, you shall be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and its pinions with yellow gold.

I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands left the pots.

When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people,

And Joseph situated his father and his brothers, and gave them property in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overflowing; but who is able to stand before jealousy?