Exodus 1:14

New Century Version

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.

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.

1 Kings 12:14

He followed the advice of the young men and said to the people, “My father forced you to work hard, but I will make you work even harder. My father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with whips that have sharp points.”

Psalm 129:1

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

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 1:11

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.

Exodus 1:13

and demanded even more of them.

Exodus 1:15

Two Hebrew nurses, named Shiphrah and Puah, helped the Israelite women give birth to their babies. The king of Egypt said to the nurses,

Exodus 2:23

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The people of Israel groaned, because they were forced to work very hard. When they cried for help, God heard them.

Exodus 20:2

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt where you were slaves.

Exodus 6:9

So Moses told this to the Israelites, but they would not listen to him. They were discouraged, and their slavery was hard.

Proverbs 28:15

A wicked ruler is as dangerous to poor people as a roaring lion or a charging bear.

Isaiah 10:24

This is what the Lord God All-Powerful says: “My people living in Jerusalem, don’t be afraid of the Assyrians, who beat you with a rod and raise a stick against you, as Egypt did.

Isaiah 14:6

The king of Babylon struck people in anger again and again. He ruled nations in anger and continued to hurt them.

Isaiah 51:23

I will now give that cup of punishment to those who gave you pain, who told you, ‘Bow down so we can walk over you.’ They made your back like dirt for them to walk on; you were like a street for them to travel on.”

Isaiah 52:5

“Now see what has happened,” says the Lord. “Another nation has taken away my people for nothing. This nation who rules them makes fun of me,” says the Lord. “All day long they speak against me.

Isaiah 58:6

“I will tell you the kind of fast I want: Free the people you have put in prison unfairly and undo their chains. Free those to whom you are unfair and stop their hard labor.

Leviticus 25:43

You must not rule this person cruelly, but you must respect your God.

Leviticus 25:46

and you may even pass them on to your children after you die; you can make them slaves forever. But you must not rule cruelly over your own people, the Israelites.

Leviticus 25:53

But he will live like a hired person with the foreigner every year; don’t let the foreigner rule cruelly over him.

Micah 3:3

You eat my people’s flesh and skin them and break their bones; you chop them up like meat for the pot, like meat in a cooking pan.

Nahum 3:14

Get enough water before the long war begins. Make your defenses strong! Get mud, mix clay, make bricks!

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,

Acts 7:19

This king tricked our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to leave their babies outside to die.

Acts 7:34

I have seen the troubles my people have suffered in Egypt. I have heard their cries and have come down to save them. And now, Moses, I am sending you back to Egypt.’

Deuteronomy 26:6

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

Deuteronomy 4:20

But the Lord brought you out of Egypt, which tested you like a furnace for melting iron, and he made you his very own people, as you are now.

Ruth 1:20

Naomi answered the people, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very sad.