NASB
"But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out, so that they were in dread of the sons of Israel."
— Exodus 1:12, NASB
“But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.”
“But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. ”
“But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.”
“But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. As a result the Egyptians loathed the Israelites,”
“But the more they oppressed them, the more they were multiplied and increased.”
“But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians.”
“But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.”
He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are more and mightier than we.
"Come, let us deal wisely with them, or else they will multiply and in the event of war, they will also join themselves to those who hate us, and fight against us and depart from the land."
So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out, so that they were in dread of the sons of Israel.
The Egyptians compelled the sons of Israel to labor rigorously;
and they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they rigorously imposed on them.
Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other was named Puah;