Exodus 1:1-14 and Mark 3:7-12 (NLT)

Exodus 1:1-14
The Israelites Oppressed

1    These are the names of the sons of Israel (that is, Jacob) who moved to Egypt with their father, each with his family: 

2    Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, 

3    Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, 

4    Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 

5    In all, Jacob had seventy descendants in Egypt, including Joseph, who was already there.

6    In time, Joseph and all of his brothers died, ending that entire generation.
7    But their descendants, the Israelites, had many children and grandchildren. In fact, they multiplied so greatly that they became extremely powerful and filled the land.
8    Eventually, a new king came to power in Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph or what he had done.
9    He said to his people, “Look, the people of Israel now outnumber us and are stronger than we are.
10  We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more. If we don’t, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us. Then they will escape from the country.”
11  So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor. They forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king.
12  But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more the Israelites multiplied and spread, and the more alarmed the Egyptians became.
13  So the Egyptians worked the people of Israel without mercy.
14  They made their lives bitter, forcing them to mix mortar and make bricks and do all the work in the fields. They were ruthless in all their demands.

Mark 3:7-12
Crowds Follow Jesus

7    Jesus went out to the lake with his disciples, and a large crowd followed him. They came from all over Galilee, Judea, 

8    Jerusalem, Idumea, from east of the Jordan River, and even from as far north as Tyre and Sidon. The news about his miracles had spread far and wide, and vast numbers of people came to see him.

9    Jesus instructed his disciples to have a boat ready so the crowd would not crush him.
10  He had healed many people that day, so all the sick people eagerly pushed forward to touch him.
11  And whenever those possessed by evil spirits caught sight of him, the spirits would throw them to the ground in front of him shrieking, “You are the Son of God!”
12  But Jesus sternly commanded the spirits not to reveal who he was.