Numbers 20:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ how our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians oppressed us and our ancestors,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ How our fathers went down to Egypt; we dwelt there a long time, and the Egyptians dealt evilly with us and our fathers.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

Common English Bible

¹⁵ How our ancestors went down to Egypt and lived in Egypt for a long time. The Egyptians oppressed us as they had our ancestors,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ how our fathers descended into Egypt, and we lived there for a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted both us and our fathers,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ In what manner our fathers went down into Egypt, and there we dwelt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.

Numbers 20:15 Cross References

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know this for certain, that your offspring shall be aliens in a land that is not theirs and shall be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years,

Genesis 46:6

They also took their livestock and the goods that they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they came into Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him,

Genesis 46:7

his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters; all his offspring he brought with him into Egypt.

2 Samuel 12:18

On the seventh day the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “While the child was still alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to us; how then can we tell him the child is dead? He may do himself some harm.”

Exodus 1:16

“When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”

Exodus 1:22

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”

Exodus 12:40

The time that the Israelites had lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

Exodus 5:14

And the Israelite supervisors whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them were beaten and were asked, “Why did you not finish the required quantity of bricks yesterday and today, as you did before?”

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish we used to eat in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic,

Numbers 16:13

Is it too little that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also lord it over us?

Numbers 20:14

Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, “Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the adversity that has befallen us,

Numbers 20:16

and when we cried to the Lord, he heard our voice and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt, and here we are in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your territory.

Acts 7:15

so Jacob went down to Egypt. He himself died there as well as our ancestors,

Acts 7:19

He dealt craftily with our people and forced our ancestors to abandon their infants so that they would die.

Deuteronomy 26:6

When the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, by imposing hard labor on us,