Your father made our yoke hard to bear: now therefore ease somewhat the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve you.
Your father made our yoke hard to bear: now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve you.
But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no slaves: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
And it came to pass in the course of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the forced labor, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the forced labor.
I was angry with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given them into your hand: you showed them no mercy; upon the elderly have you very heavily laid your yoke.
For they bind burdens that are heavy and hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.