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Exodus 1:14

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

and made their lives bitter with difficult labour in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.

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He dealt deceitfully with our race and oppressed our ancestors by making them abandon their infants outside so that they wouldn’t survive.


Our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt many years, but the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.


Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen  to him because of their broken spirit and hard labour.


After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labour, they cried out,  and their cry for help because of the difficult labour ascended to God.


I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. And now, come, I will send you to Egypt.   ,


Isn’t this the fast I choose: To break the chains of wickedness, to untie the ropes of the yoke, to set the oppressed free, and to tear off every yoke?


Draw water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Step into the clay and tread the mortar; take hold of the brick-mould!


You eat the flesh  of my people after you strip their skin from them and break their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.’


So now what have I here’ – this is the  Lord’s declaration – ‘that my people are taken away for nothing? Its rulers wail’ – this is the  Lord’s declaration – ‘and my name is continually blasphemed all day long.


I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, who said to you, “Lie down, so that we can walk over you.” You made your back like the ground, and like a street for those who walk on it.


It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows. It subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.


‘Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara,’  she answered, ‘for the Almighty  has made me very bitter.


But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, and forced us to do hard labour.


But the Lord selected you and brought you out of Egypt’s iron furnace  to be a people for his inheritance, as you are today.


He will stay with him like a man hired year by year. A resident foreigner is not to rule over him harshly in your sight.


You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But concerning your brothers, the Israelites, you must not rule over one another harshly.


You are not to rule over them harshly  but fear your God.


I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.


They worked the Israelites ruthlessly


Then the Lord said to Abram,  ‘Know this for certain: your offspring will be resident foreigners  for four hundred years  in a land that does not belong to them and will be enslaved and oppressed.


So the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labour.  They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities  for Pharaoh.


The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives #– #the first, whose name was Shiphrah, and the second, whose name was Puah #– #


and spoke to them according to the young men’s advice: ‘My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips.’


A wicked ruler over a helpless people is like a roaring lion or a charging bear.


Therefore, the Lord God of Armies says this: ‘My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear Assyria, though they strike you with a rod and raise their staff over you as the Egyptians did.





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