Numbers 20:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:

Our fathers

Genesis 46:6

Acts 7:15

Dwelt

Genesis 15:13

Exodus 12:40

Vexed us

General references

Numbers 21:21

Bible References

Our fathers

And they took their livestock and their possessions that they had acquired in the land of Canaan. And they came to Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him,

And Jacob went down to Egypt and died, he and our fathers.

Dwelt

And he said to Abram, "{You must surely know} that your descendants shall be [as] aliens in a land {not their own}. And they shall serve them and they shall oppress them four hundred years.

And the period of dwelling of the {Israelites} that they dwelled in Egypt [was] four hundred and thirty years.

Vexed us

We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumber, melon, leek, the onions, and the garlic.

Is it too little that you have brought us from a land that flows with milk and honey to kill us in the desert, and that you also appoint yourself as a ruler over us?

And they appointed commanders of forced labor over them in order to oppress them with their {forced labor}, and they built storage cities for Pharaoh--Pithom and Rameses.

And the foremen of the {Israelites}, whom Pharaoh's slave drivers had appointed over them, were beaten [by men who were] saying, "Why have you not completed your portion of brickmaking {as before, both yesterday and today}?"

And the Egyptians treated us badly, and they oppressed us and imposed on us hard labor.

This man deceitfully took advantage of our people [and] mistreated our ancestors, {causing them to abandon their infants} so that they would not be kept alive.

General references

Israel sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amorites, saying,