And the LORD said: "I have surely seen the oppression of My people who [are] in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

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

Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land [that is] not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.

'how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.

'But the Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us.

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

Then the king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people from their work? Get [back] to your labor."

And Pharaoh said, "Look, the people of the land [are] many now, and you make them rest from their labor!"

Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, [You will be] like the wings of a dove covered with silver, And her feathers with yellow gold."

"I removed his shoulder from the burden; His hands were freed from the baskets.

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 a possession 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 a torrent, But who [is] able to stand before jealousy?