¹¹ So the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor.^(A) They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities^(B) for Pharaoh.

²³ “As he was approaching the age of 40, he decided^[a] to visit his brothers, the Israelites.

²⁴ By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter ²⁵ and chose to suffer with the people of God rather than to enjoy the short-lived pleasure of sin.^{(A) 26} For he considered the reproach because of the Messiah to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, since his attention was on the reward.^(B)