Graphic Bible · Scene 2 of 4
Exodus 1:8-14
Burdens of brick
A family becomes a people · Exodus 1
Story guide: A new king sees Israel as a threat and imposes harsh labor.
Open this scene in the reader →8A new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
9And he said to his people, “Look, the people of the sons of Israel are more numerous and stronger than we are.”
10Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and if war breaks out, they too may join our enemies and fight against us and go up out of the land.
11So they set taskmasters over him to afflict him with their burdens, and he built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Rameses.
12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out, so that they dreaded the sons of Israel.
13And the Egyptians made the sons of Israel serve harshly.
14And they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and in every kind of field work—all their labor that they imposed on them with harshness.
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