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Numbers 20:15

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how our ancestors went to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated our ancestors and us,

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The Lord said to him, “Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land; they will be slaves there and will be treated cruelly for four hundred years.

They took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan and went to Egypt. Jacob took all his descendants with him:

his sons, his grandsons, his daughters, and his granddaughters.

A week later the child died, and David's officials were afraid to tell him the news. They said, “While the child was living, David wouldn't answer us when we spoke to him. How can we tell him that his child is dead? He might do himself some harm!”

“When you help the Hebrew women give birth,” he said to them, “kill the baby if it is a boy; but if it is a girl, let it live.”

Finally the king issued a command to all his people: “Take every newborn Hebrew boy and throw him into the Nile, but let all the girls live.”

The Israelites had lived in Egypt for 430 years.

The Egyptian slave drivers beat the Israelite foremen, whom they had put in charge of the work. They demanded, “Why aren't you people making the same number of bricks that you made before?”

In Egypt we used to eat all the fish we wanted, and it cost us nothing. Remember the cucumbers, the watermelons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic we had?

Isn't it enough that you have brought us out of the fertile land of Egypt to kill us here in the wilderness? Do you also have to lord it over us?

Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom. They said, “This message is from your kinsmen, the tribes of Israel. You know the hardships we have suffered,

and we cried to the Lord for help. He heard our cry and sent an angel, who led us out of Egypt. Now we are at Kadesh, a town at the border of your territory.

Then Jacob went to Egypt, where he and his sons died.

He tricked our ancestors and was cruel to them, forcing them to put their babies out of their homes, so that they would die.

The Egyptians treated us harshly and forced us to work as slaves.




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