Exodus 1:11

Bible in Basic English 1965

So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.

Cross References

Genesis 15:13

And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;

Exodus 3:7

And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;

Exodus 2:11

Now when Moses had become a man, one day he went out to his people and saw how hard their work was; and he saw an Egyptian giving blows to a Hebrew, one of his people.

Genesis 47:11

And Joseph made a place for his father and his brothers, and gave them a heritage in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had given orders.

Psalm 81:6

I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.

Deuteronomy 26:6

And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke:

Numbers 20:15

How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we were living in Egypt for a long time; and the Egyptians were cruel to us and to our fathers:

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?

Psalm 105:13

When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people.

Psalm 68:13

Will you take your rest among the flocks? like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold.

2 Chronicles 8:4

And he put up the buildings of Tadmor in the waste land, and of all the store-towns in Hamath;

1 Kings 9:19

And all the store-towns and the towns which Solomon had for his war-carriages and for his horsemen, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

Exodus 5:15

Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh, protesting and saying, Why are you acting in this way to your servants?

Exodus 1:14

And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.

Exodus 5:10

And the overseers of the people and their responsible men went out and said to the people, Pharaoh says, I will give you no more dry stems.

2 Chronicles 16:4

And Ben-hadad did as King Asa said, and sent the captains of his armies against the towns of Israel, attacking Ijon and Dan and Abel-maim, and all the store-towns of Naphtali.

Psalm 129:1

A Song of the going up. Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young let Israel now say;

Exodus 5:8

But see that they make the same number of bricks as before, and no less: for they have no love for work; and so they are crying out and saying, Let us go and make an offering to our God.

Psalm 129:2

Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me.