So they set slave masters over them to afflict them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Raamses as storage cities for Pharaoh.
Deuteronomy 26:6 - Tree of Life Version The Egyptians treated us badly, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the Egyptians treated us very badly and afflicted us and laid upon us hard bondage. American Standard Version (1901) And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: Common English Bible The Egyptians treated us terribly, oppressing us and forcing hard labor on us. Catholic Public Domain Version And the Egyptians afflicted us, and they persecuted us, imposing upon us the most grievous burdens. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the Egyptians afflicted us, and persecuted us, laying on us most grievous burdens. |
So they set slave masters over them to afflict them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Raamses as storage cities for Pharaoh.
and made their lives bitter with hard labor with mortar and brick, doing all sorts of work in the fields. In all their labors they worked them with cruelty.
and said, “When you help the Hebrew women during childbirth, look at the sex. If it’s a son, then kill him, but if it’s a daughter, she may live.”
But Pharaoh charged all his people saying, “You are to cast every son that is born into the river, but let every daughter live.”
So the foremen of Bnei-Yisrael saw that they were in trouble when they were told, “You are not to reduce the number of bricks from day to day.”
Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your Name, he has brought evil on these people. You have not delivered Your people at all.”
Let even heavier work be laid upon the men, so that they must labor, paying no attention to deceptive words.”
Our forefathers went down to Egypt, so we lived there for a very long time. The Egyptians mistreated us, and our fathers.
Then we cried out to Adonai, God of our fathers, and Adonai listened to our voice and saw our affliction, our toil and our oppression.
But you, Adonai has taken, and He brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt to be a people for His own inheritance, as you are this day.