자, 우리가 그들에게 대하여 지혜롭게 하자 두렵건대 그들이 더 많게 되면 전쟁이 일어날 때에 우리 대적과 합하여 우리와 싸우고 이 땅에서 나갈까 하노라 하고
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감독들을 그들 위에 세우고 그들에게 무거운 짐을 지워 괴롭게 하여 그들에게 바로를 위하여 국고성 비돔과 라암셋을 건축하게 하니라
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그러나 학대를 받을수록 더욱 번성하여 퍼져나가니 애굽 사람이 이스라엘 자손으로 말미암아 근심하여
Exodus 3:1-12
1.
These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:
2.
Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah;
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Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin;
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Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
5.
The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.
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Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,
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but the Israelites were fruitful and multiplied greatly and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.
8.
Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt.
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"Look," he said to his people, "the Israelites have become much too numerous for us.
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Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country."
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So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
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But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites