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THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES CALLED
EXODUS
CHAPTER 1
  11 Therefore they did set over them ataskmasters to afflict them with their bburdens. And they built for Pharaoh ctreasure cities, Pithom and dRaamses.

Footnotes
11a
Gen. 15: 13 (13-14).
  13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a astranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall bafflict them four hundred years;
Deut. 26: 6.
  6 And the aEgyptians bevil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
b
Ex. 2: 11.
  11 ¶ And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his abrethren, and looked on their bburdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
Ps. 81: 6.
  6 I removed his shoulder from the aburden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
1 Ne. 17: 25.
  25 Now ye know that the children of Israel were in abondage; and ye know that they were laden with btasks, which were grievous to be borne; wherefore, ye know that it must needs be a good thing for them, that they should be cbrought out of bondage.
1 Ne. 20: 10.
  10 For, behold, I have refined thee, I have chosen thee in the furnace of aaffliction.
Mosiah 21: 3 (3-6).
  3 Now they durst not slay them, because of the aoath which their king had made unto Limhi; but they would smite them on their bcheeks, and exercise authority over them; and began to put heavy cburdens upon their backs, and drive them as they would a dumb ass—
Mosiah 24: 9.
  9 For Amulon knew Alma, that he had been aone of the king’s priests, and that it was he that believed the words of Abinadi and was driven out before the king, and therefore he was wroth with him; for he was subject to king Laman, yet he exercised authority over them, and put btasks upon them, and put ctask-masters over them.
c
HEB storage cities; i.e. granaries.
d
OR Rameses (Zoan, Ps. 78: 12); also the former Hyksos capital (Avaris or Tanis) of Joseph’s time.
  12 aMarvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of bZoan.
Gen. 47: 11.
  11 ¶ And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of aRameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.