Exodus 6:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Moses told this to the Israelites, but they would not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and their cruel slavery.

Cross References

Job 21:4

As for me, is my complaint addressed to mortals? Why should I not be impatient?

Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with hard servitude in mortar and bricks and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.

Exodus 14:12

Is this not the very thing we told you in Egypt, ‘Let us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

Exodus 2:23

After a long time the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their slavery and cried out. Their cry for help rose up to God from their slavery.

Exodus 5:21

They said to them, “The Lord look upon you and judge! You have brought us into bad odor with Pharaoh and his officials and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.”

Exodus 6:10

Then the Lord spoke to Moses,

Proverbs 14:19

The evil bow down before the good, the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

Proverbs 18:14

The human spirit will endure sickness, but a broken spirit—who can bear?

Numbers 21:4

From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, but the people became discouraged on the way.