Exodus 2:11

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.

Cross References

Exodus 1:11

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens; and they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Ra-amses.

Exodus 3:7

Then the Lord said, “I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; I know their sufferings,

Exodus 5:14

And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today, as hitherto?”

Exodus 5:4

But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get to your burdens.”

Exodus 5:5

And Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many and you make them rest from their burdens!”

Exodus 5:9

Let heavier work be laid upon the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.”

Exodus 6:6

Say therefore to the people of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment,

Exodus 6:7

and I will take you for my people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

Isaiah 58:6

“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

Matthew 11:28

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,