Israelites

“Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon which is at the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was struck near that tendon.”

“These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:”

“Now the Israelites settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and became fruitful and increased greatly in number.”

“but the Israelites were fruitful and increased rapidly; they multiplied and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.”

““Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.”

“So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.”

“But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.”

“They worked the Israelites ruthlessly”