So they took their livestock and their possessions which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his seed with him.

So Jacob went down into Egypt; and he died, he and our fathers.

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.

Now the time the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt remained there was four hundred and thirty years.

We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic;

Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you rule to lord it over us?

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses.

So the Egyptians made the children of Israel work with harshness.

And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, Why have you not completed the prescribed amount to make brick, both yesterday and today, as before?

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

This man dealt craftily with our people, and oppressed our forefathers, making them cast out their babies, so that they might not live.