Exodus 1:11

New English Translation

So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

Cross References

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

Genesis 47:11

So Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them territory in the land of Egypt, in the best region of the land, the land of Rameses, just as Pharaoh had commanded.

1 Kings 9:19

all the storage cities that belonged to him, and the cities where chariots and horses were kept. He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom.

2 Chronicles 16:4

Ben Hadad accepted King Asa’s offer and ordered his army commanders to attack the cities of Israel. They conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali.

2 Chronicles 8:4

He built up Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage cities he had built in Hamath.

Psalm 105:13

they wandered from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another.

Psalm 129:1

“Since my youth they have often attacked me,” let Israel say.

Psalm 129:2

“Since my youth they have often attacked me, but they have not defeated me.

Psalm 68:13

When you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver and with glittering gold.

Psalm 81:6

It said: “I removed the burden from his shoulder; his hands were released from holding the basket.

Exodus 1:14

They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.

Exodus 2:11

In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people.

Exodus 3:7

The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Exodus 5:10

So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said, “Thus says Pharaoh: ‘I am not giving you straw.

Exodus 5:15

The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh, “Why are you treating your servants this way?

Exodus 5:8

But you must require of them the same quota of bricks that they were making before. Do not reduce it, for they are slackers. That is why they are crying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to our God.’

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

Numbers 20:15

how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.

Deuteronomy 26:6

But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.