Exodus 1:11

New Century Version

So the Egyptians made life hard for the Israelites. They put slave masters over them, who forced the Israelites to build the cities Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king.

Cross References

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to Abram, “You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers and travel in a land they don’t own. The people there will make them slaves and be cruel to them for four hundred years.

Genesis 47:11

Joseph obeyed the king and gave his father and brothers the best land in Egypt, near the city of Rameses.

1 Kings 9:19

King Solomon also built cities for storing grain and supplies and cities for his chariots and horses. He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and everywhere he ruled.

2 Chronicles 16:4

Ben-Hadad agreed with King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies to attack the towns of Israel. They defeated the towns of Ijon, Dan, and Abel Beth Maacah, and all the towns in Naphtali where treasures were stored.

2 Chronicles 8:4

Solomon also built the town of Tadmor in the desert, and he built all the towns in Hamath as towns for storing grain and supplies.

Psalm 105:13

They went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another.

Psalm 129:1

They have treated me badly all my life. (Let Israel repeat this.)

Psalm 129:2

They have treated me badly all my life, but they have not defeated me.

Psalm 68:13

Those who stayed by the campfires will share the riches taken in battle.”

Psalm 81:6

“I took the load off their shoulders; I let them put down their baskets.

Exodus 1:14

They made their lives bitter. They forced the Israelites to work hard to make bricks and mortar and to do all kinds of work in the fields. The Egyptians were not merciful to them in all their painful work.

Exodus 2:11

Moses grew and became a man. One day he visited his people and saw that they were forced to work very hard. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew man, one of Moses’ own people.

Exodus 3:7

The Lord said, “I have seen the troubles my people have suffered in Egypt, and I have heard their cries when the Egyptian slave masters hurt them. I am concerned about their pain,

Exodus 5:10

So the slave masters and foremen went to the Israelites and said, “This is what the king says: I will no longer give you straw.

Exodus 5:15

Then the Israelite foremen went to the king and complained, “Why are you treating us, your servants, this way?

Exodus 5:8

But they must still make the same number of bricks as they did before. Do not accept fewer. They have become lazy, and that is why they are asking me, ‘Let us go to offer sacrifices to our God.’

Proverbs 27:4

Anger is cruel and destroys like a flood, but no one can put up with jealousy!

Numbers 20:15

how our ancestors went down into Egypt and we lived there for many years. The people of Egypt were cruel to us and our ancestors,

Deuteronomy 26:6

But the Egyptians were cruel to us, making us suffer and work very hard.