Exodus 1:11
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Cross-reference
In Exodus 2:11, Moses sees the burdens and an Egyptian beating a Hebrew — the immediate consequence of the taskmasters' oppression.
In Exodus 3:7, God sees the affliction and hears the cry from those very taskmasters — launching deliverance. Direct narrative link from oppression to divine response.
In Exodus 5:4, Pharaoh commands return to the same labor imposed in Exodus 1:11, continuing the oppression.
In Exodus 5:5, Pharaoh complains about the people resting from the burdens introduced in Exodus 1:11.
In Exodus 3:9, God hears the cry from the oppression begun in Exodus 1:11, motivating deliverance.
In Exodus 5:6, Pharaoh commands the same taskmasters from Exodus 1:11 to intensify the labor.
In Exodus 5:10, the same taskmasters reappear, enforcing Pharaoh's harsher decree—continuing the oppression narrative.
In Exodus 12:37, the Israelites depart from Rameses, the very store city they were forced to build in 1:11.
In Exodus 5:15, the foremen cry to Pharaoh about harsh treatment — the same heavy burdens imposed by taskmasters. Shows escalating conflict.
In Genesis 15:13, God foretold Abraham's descendants would be afflicted for 400 years — here the oppression begins. Prophecy fulfilled.
In Psalm 81:6, God recalls removing the burden from Israel's shoulder, directly referencing the labor of Exodus 1:11.
In Psalm 105:25, God turns Egyptian hearts to hate Israel, explaining the oppression behind the forced labor in 1:11.
In Numbers 33:3, the Exodus begins at Rameses, the same store city built under slavery in 1:11.
In Deuteronomy 26:6, the worshiper recites how Egyptians treated them harshly with hard labor — directly referencing the same oppression.
In Numbers 20:15, Moses recounts the Egyptian mistreatment — a later summary of the heavy labor and affliction described here.
In Genesis 48:4, God's promise of multiplication to Jacob leads to the growth that triggers oppression in Exodus 1:11.
Genesis 47:11 locates Israel in the land of Rameses, the same region as the store city Raamses built in Exodus 1:11.