Exodus 1:14

and embittered their lives with hard labour, in clay and in brick, and in all labour of the field, all the work which they wrought, they made them do with hardship.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

In Context

13And the Mizraee made the sons of Israel serve with rigour,

15And the king of Mizraim spake to the midwives of Jewesses, ( Yehuditha,) of whom the name of the one was Shiphra, and the name of the second Puvah;

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Cross References

Exodus 1:13And the Mizraee made the sons of Israel serve with rigour,

Exodus 5:7You shall not continue (add) to give straw to the people to cast bricks, as heretofore; let them go and collect straw for themselves;

Exodus 6:9And Mosheh so spake with the sons of Israel: but they received not from Mosheh through anguish of spirit, and from the labour which was hard upon them.

Leviticus 25:43Thou shalt not make him serve with rigour, but shalt fear thy God.

Leviticus 25:53As a hireling year by year shall he be with him; he shall not work him with rigour before thine eyes.

Deuteronomy 4:20But you hath the Lord drawn nigh unto His service, and brought you out from the iron furnace, (even) from Mizraim, to be unto Him a people of inheritance, as at this day.

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 →

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