Deuteronomy 26:6

And the Egyptians afflicted us, and humbled us, and imposed hard tasks on us:

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

In Context

5and he shall answer and say before the Lord thy God, My father abandoned Syria, and went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a small number, and became there a mighty nation and a great multitude.

7and we cried to the Lord our God, and the Lord heard our voice, and saw our humiliation, and our labour, and our affliction.

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Cross References

Exodus 1:14And they embittered their life by hard labours, in the clay and in brick-making, and all the works in the plains, according to all the works, wherein they caused them to serve with violence.

Exodus 1:22And Pharao charged all his people, saying, Whatever male child shall be born to the Hebrews, cast into the river; and every female, save it alive.

Exodus 5:19And the accountants of the children of Israel saw themselves in an evil plight, men saying, Ye shall not fail + 5:19 Gr. from the brick-making to deliver that which belongs to each day.to deliver the daily rate of the brick-making.

Numbers 20:15And how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we sojourned in Egypt many days, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 26:2-12

The Offering of First-Fruits. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein; 2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name there. 3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days,… Read the whole commentary →

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