Exodus 1:14

New English Translation

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.

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.

1 Kings 12:14

and followed the advice of the younger ones. He said, “My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.”

Psalm 129:1

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

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 1:11

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.

Exodus 1:13

and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.

Exodus 1:15

The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,

Exodus 2:23

During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God.

Exodus 20:2

“I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

Exodus 6:9

Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.

Proverbs 28:15

Like a roaring lion or a roving bear, so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

Isaiah 10:24

So here is what the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, says: “My people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of Assyria, even though they beat you with a club and lift their cudgel against you as Egypt did.

Isaiah 14:6

It furiously struck down nations with unceasing blows. It angrily ruled over nations, oppressing them without restraint.

Isaiah 51:23

I will put it into the hand of your tormentors who said to you, ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’ You made your back like the ground, and like the street for those who walked over you.”

Isaiah 52:5

And now, what do we have here?” says the Lord. “Indeed my people have been carried away for nothing, those who rule over them taunt,” says the Lord, “and my name is constantly slandered all day long.

Isaiah 58:6

No, this is the kind of fast I want. I want you to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, and to break every burdensome yoke.

Leviticus 25:43

You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God.

Leviticus 25:46

You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.

Leviticus 25:53

He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

Micah 3:3

You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot – like meat in a kettle.

Nahum 3:14

Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!

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.

Acts 7:19

This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

Acts 7:34

I have certainly seen the suffering of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Now come, I will send you to Egypt.’

Deuteronomy 26:6

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

Deuteronomy 4:20

You, however, the Lord has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.

Ruth 1:20

But she replied to them, “Don’t call me ‘Naomi’! Call me ‘Mara’ because the Sovereign One has treated me very harshly.