Exodus 6:9

New English Translation

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

Cross References

Job 21:4

Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?

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 14:12

Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!’”

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 5:21

and they said to them, “May the Lord look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh and his servants, so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!”

Exodus 6:10

Then the Lord said to Moses,

Proverbs 14:19

Those who are evil will bow before those who are good, and the wicked will bow at the gates of the righteous.

Proverbs 18:14

A person’s spirit sustains him through sickness – but who can bear a crushed spirit?

Numbers 21:4

Then they traveled from Mount Hor by the road to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, but the people became impatient along the way.