Then the Lord said to him, ‘Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and ill-treated there.
Numbers 20:15 - New International Version (Anglicised) Our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived there many years. The Egyptians ill-treated us and our ancestors, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition How our fathers went down to Egypt; we dwelt there a long time, and the Egyptians dealt evilly with us and our fathers. American Standard Version (1901) how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers: Common English Bible How our ancestors went down to Egypt and lived in Egypt for a long time. The Egyptians oppressed us as they had our ancestors, Catholic Public Domain Version how our fathers descended into Egypt, and we lived there for a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted both us and our fathers, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In what manner our fathers went down into Egypt, and there we dwelt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers. |
Then the Lord said to him, ‘Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and ill-treated there.
So Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt, taking with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan.
Jacob brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons and his daughters and granddaughters – all his offspring.
On the seventh day the child died. David’s attendants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, ‘While the child was still living, he wouldn’t listen to us when we spoke to him. How can we now tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.’
‘When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.’
Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: ‘Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.’
Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt was 430 years.
And Pharaoh’s slave drivers beat the Israelite overseers they had appointed, demanding, ‘Why haven’t you met your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as before?’
We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost – also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.
Isn’t it enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? And now you also want to lord it over us!
Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: ‘This is what your brother Israel says: you know about all the hardships that have come on us.
but when we cried out to the Lord, he heard our cry and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt. ‘Now we are here at Kadesh, a town on the edge of your territory.
He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to throw out their newborn babies so that they would die.
But the Egyptians ill-treated us and made us suffer, subjecting us to harsh labour.