Exodus 1:14

They made their lives bitter with hard service with mortar and brick, and with all kinds of work in the fields. All their required work was hard.

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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

13The Egyptians made the Israelites work rigorously.

15Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives; the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the other Puah.

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Cross References

Exodus 1:13The Egyptians made the Israelites work rigorously.

Exodus 5:7“Unlike before, you must no longer give the people straw to make bricks. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Exodus 6:9When Moses told this to the Israelites, they would not listen to him because of their discouragement about their harsh slavery.

Leviticus 25:43You must not rule over them harshly, but you must honor your God.

Leviticus 25:53He is to be treated like a man hired year by year. You must make sure he is not treated with harshness.

Deuteronomy 4:20But Yahweh has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of his own inheritance, 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 →

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