Acts 7:19

The same dealt subtilly with our kindred[race] The word is from the LXX. (Exodus 1:10), "Let us deal wisely (i.e. craftily) with them" are the words of the new king.

and evil entreated our fathers Beside the hard tasks put upon the people according to the record in Exodus, Josephus adds (Antiq. ii. 9. 1) that the Egyptians "made them to cut a great many channels for the river, and set them to build pyramids, forced them to learn all sorts of mechanical arts and to accustom themselves to hard labour."

so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live Better, in causing their young children to be cast out, &c. The words are rather a description of what the Egyptian king did in his tyranny (Exodus 1:22), than (as A. V.) of what the Israelites were driven to by their despair.