Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, with which they made them serve with rigor.

New American Standard Bible

and they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they rigorously imposed on them.

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.

Holman Bible

and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.

International Standard Version

making their lives bitter through hard labor with mortar, bricks, and all kinds of outdoor labor. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.

American Standard Version

and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor.

Amplified

They made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar, brick, and all kinds of field work. All their labor was harsh and severe.

Bible in Basic English

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.

Darby Translation

and they embittered their life with hard labour in clay and bricks, and in all manner of labour in the field: all their labour with which they made them serve was with harshness.

Julia Smith Translation

And they will embitter their lives by hard work in clay, and in bricks, and in all work in the field: all their work in which they made them serve by oppression.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

And they made their lives bitter with hard work with mortar and with bricks and with all [sorts] of work in the field--with all their work in which they ruthlessly enslaved them.

Modern King James verseion

And they made their lives bitter with hard work in mortar and in bricks, and in all kinds of work in the field; all their work in which they made them do was with harshness.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

and made their lives bitter unto them with cruel labour in clay and brick, and all manner work in the fields, and in all manner of service, which they caused them to work cruelly.

NET Bible

They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.

New Heart English Bible

and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

The Emphasized Bible

and embittered their lives with harsh service, in clay and in bricks, and in all manner of service in the field, - all their service, wherein they rigorously made them serve.

Webster

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

World English Bible

and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

Youngs Literal Translation

and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every kind of service in the field; all their service in which they have served is with rigour.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
חי 
Chay 
Usage: 502

with hard
קשׁה 
Qasheh 
Usage: 36

עבודה עבדה 
`abodah 
Usage: 146

in morter
חמר 
Chomer 
Usage: 31

and in brick
לבנה 
L@benah 
Usage: 11

and in all manner of service
עבודה עבדה 
`abodah 
Usage: 146

in the field
שׂדי שׂדה 
Sadeh 
Usage: 333

עבודה עבדה 
`abodah 
Usage: 146

עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

References

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Context Readings

Israel And Oppression In Egypt

13 And the Egyptians made the sons of Israel to serve with rigor. 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, with which they made them serve with rigor. 15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah.



Cross References

Exodus 2:23

And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

Exodus 6:9

And Moses spoke so to the sons of Israel, but they did not hearken to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

Numbers 20:15

how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time. And the Egyptians dealt ill with us and our fathers.

Acts 7:19

This man, who cunningly victimized our race, mistreated our fathers to make their infants be placed outside in order not to keep alive.

Psalm 81:6

I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.

Acts 7:34

Having looked, I saw the oppression of my people in Egypt, and I heard their groaning, and I came down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.

Genesis 15:13

And he said to Abram, Know of a certainty that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs. And shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years.

Exodus 1:13

And the Egyptians made the sons of Israel to serve with rigor.

Exodus 5:7-21

Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick as formerly. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Exodus 20:2

I am LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Leviticus 25:43

Thou shall not rule over him with rigor, but shall fear thy God.

Leviticus 25:46

And ye shall make them an inheritance for your sons after you, to hold for a possession. Ye shall take them your bondmen forever, but over your brothers the sons of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.

Leviticus 25:53

He shall be with him as a servant hired year by year. He shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.

Deuteronomy 4:20

But LORD has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.

Deuteronomy 26:6

And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage.

Ruth 1:20

And she said to them, Call me not Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

Psalm 68:13

Though ye lay between two boundaries, [it is as] the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her pinions with yellow gold.

Isaiah 14:6

who smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

Isaiah 51:23

And I will put it into the hand of those who afflict thee, who have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over, and thou have laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to those who go over.

Isaiah 52:5

Now therefore, what do I do here, says LORD, seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them howl, says LORD, and {because of you (LXX/NT)} my name is continually blasphemed {among the Gentiles (LXX/NT)}.

Isaiah 58:6

Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Jeremiah 50:33-34

Thus says LORD of hosts: The sons of Israel and the sons of Judah are oppressed together, and all who took them captive hold them firm; they refuse to let them go.

Micah 3:3

who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

Nahum 3:14

Draw thee water for the siege. Strengthen thy fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make strong the brick kiln.

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