Exodus 1:14 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁴ and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigour.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ They made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar, brick, and all kinds of work in the field. All their service was with harshness and severity.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ They made their lives miserable with hard labor, making mortar and bricks, doing field work, and by forcing them to do all kinds of other cruel work.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ And they led their life directly into bitterness, with hard work in clay and brick, and with all kinds of servitude, so that they were being overwhelmed with the works of the land.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay, and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.

Exodus 1:14 Cross References

Genesis 15:13

And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

1 Kings 12:14

and spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions;

Psalm 129:1

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, Let Israel now say;

Psalm 68:13

Will ye lie among the sheepfolds, As the wings of a dove covered with silver, And her pinions with yellow gold?

Psalm 81:6

I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket.

Exodus 1:11

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.

Exodus 1:13

And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:

Exodus 1:15

And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

Exodus 2:23

And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

Exodus 20:2

I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Exodus 6:9

And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

Proverbs 28:15

As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; So is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

Isaiah 10:24

Therefore thus saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: though he smite thee with the rod, and lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.

Isaiah 14:6

that smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

Isaiah 51:23

and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to them that go over.

Isaiah 52:5

Now therefore, what do I here, saith the LORD, seeing that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them do howl, saith the LORD, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.

Isaiah 58:6

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Leviticus 25:43

Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.

Leviticus 25:46

And ye shall make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them shall ye take your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigour.

Leviticus 25:53

As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.

Micah 3:3

who also eat the flesh of my people; and they flay their skin from off them, and break their bones: yea, they chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

Nahum 3:14

Draw thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortresses: go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brickkiln.

Numbers 20:15

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

Acts 7:19

The same dealt subtilly with our race, and evil entreated our fathers, that they should cast out their babes to the end they might not live.

Acts 7:34

I have surely seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I am come down to deliver them: and now come, I will send thee into Egypt.

Deuteronomy 26:6

and the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

Deuteronomy 4:20

But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as at this day.

Ruth 1:20

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.