Exodus 1:14

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Summary

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.

Their lives

In morter

Psalm 68:13

Psalm 81:6

Nahum 3:14

Was with rigour

General references

Deuteronomy 26:6

Bible References

Their lives

During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God.

Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.

Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.

You, however, the Lord has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.

But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.

But she replied to them, "Don't call me 'Naomi'! Call me 'Mara' because the Sovereign One has treated me very harshly.

This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

In morter

When you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver and with glittering gold.

It said: "I removed the burden from his shoulder; his hands were released from holding the basket.

Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!

Was with rigour

and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.

"You must no longer give straw to the people for making bricks as before. Let them go and collect straw for themselves.

"I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God.

It furiously struck down nations with unceasing blows. It angrily ruled over nations, oppressing them without restraint.

I will put it into the hand of your tormentors who said to you, 'Lie down, so we can walk over you.' You made your back like the ground, and like the street for those who walked over you."

And now, what do we have here?" says the Lord. "Indeed my people have been carried away for nothing, those who rule over them taunt," says the Lord, "and my name is constantly slandered all day long.

No, this is the kind of fast I want. I want you to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, and to break every burdensome yoke.

The Lord who rules over all says, "The people of Israel are oppressed. So too are the people of Judah. All those who took them captive are holding them prisoners. They refuse to set them free.

You devour my people's flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot -- like meat in a kettle.

General references

But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.