Exodus 1:14
And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.
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13And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:
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Exodus 1:13And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:
Exodus 5:7Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as you have been doing; let them go and get the material for themselves.
Exodus 6:9And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, but they gave no attention to him, because of the grief of their spirit and the cruel weight of their work.
Leviticus 25:43Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you.
Leviticus 25:53And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.
Deuteronomy 4:20But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out of Egypt, to be to him the people of his heritage, as you are today.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 1:9-15
8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. 9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: 10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. 11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities,… Read the whole commentary →