11 So they set over them chiefs of forced labor for the purpose of oppressing them in their burden-bearing;+ and they went building cities as storage places for Pharʹaoh, namely, Piʹthom and Ra·amʹses.+

5 And I, even I, have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel,+ whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I remember my covenant.+

9 During all their distress it was distressing to him.*+ And his own personal messenger* saved them.+ In his love and in his compassion he himself repurchased them,+ and he proceeded to lift them up and carry them all the days of long ago.+

34 I have certainly seen the wrongful treatment of my people who are in Egypt,+ and I have heard their groaning+ and I have come down to deliver them.+ And now come, I will send you off to Egypt.’+