Then the Lord said to Abram, ‘Know this for certain: your offspring will be resident foreigners for four hundred years in a land that does not belong to them and will be enslaved and oppressed.
Exodus 1:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised So the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labour. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities for Pharaoh. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So they set over [the Israelites] taskmasters to afflict and oppress them with [increased] burdens. And [the Israelites] built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. American Standard Version (1901) Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses. Common English Bible As a result, the Egyptians put foremen of forced work gangs over the Israelites to harass them with hard work. They had to build storage cities named Pithom and Rameses for Pharaoh. Catholic Public Domain Version And so he set over them masters of the works, in order to afflict them with burdens. And they built for Pharaoh the cities of the tabernacles: Pithom and Raamses. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens. And they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom and Ramesses. |
Then the Lord said to Abram, ‘Know this for certain: your offspring will be resident foreigners for four hundred years in a land that does not belong to them and will be enslaved and oppressed.
Then Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
all the storage cities that belonged to Solomon, the chariot cities, the cavalry cities, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, or anywhere else in the land of his dominion.
Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies to the cities of Israel. They attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali.
He built Tadmor in the wilderness along with all the storage cities that he built in Hamath.
and made their lives bitter with difficult labour in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.
Years later, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their forced labour. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his people.
Then the Lord said, ‘I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. I know about their sufferings,
So the overseers and foremen of the people went out and said to them, ‘This is what Pharaoh says: “I am not giving you straw.
So the Israelite foremen went in and cried for help to Pharaoh: ‘Why are you treating your servants this way?
But require the same quota of bricks from them as they were making before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy #– #that is why they are crying out, “Let us go and sacrifice to our God.”
Our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt many years, but the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.
But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, and forced us to do hard labour.