Verse 11

So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 15:13 : 13 And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;
  • Gen 47:11 : 11 And Joseph made a place for his father and his brothers, and gave them a heritage in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had given orders.
  • Exod 2:11 : 11 Now when Moses had become a man, one day he went out to his people and saw how hard their work was; and he saw an Egyptian giving blows to a Hebrew, one of his people.
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;
  • Deut 26:6 : 6 And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke:
  • Ps 81:6 : 6 I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.
  • Ps 105:13 : 13 When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people.
  • Prov 27:4 : 4 Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?
  • 1 Kgs 9:19 : 19 And all the store-towns and the towns which Solomon had for his war-carriages and for his horsemen, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.
  • 2 Chr 8:4 : 4 And he put up the buildings of Tadmor in the waste land, and of all the store-towns in Hamath;
  • Ps 68:13 : 13 Will you take your rest among the flocks? like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold.
  • Exod 5:4-6 : 4 And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people away from their work? get back to your work. 5 And Pharaoh said, Truly, the people of the land are increasing in number, and you are keeping them back from their work. 6 The same day Pharaoh gave orders to the overseers and those who were responsible for the work, saying,
  • Exod 5:15 : 15 Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh, protesting and saying, Why are you acting in this way to your servants?
  • Exod 6:6-7 : 6 Say then to the children of Israel, I am Yahweh, and I will take you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians, and make you safe from their power, and will make you free by the strength of my arm after great punishments. 7 And I will take you to be my people and I will be your God; and you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, who takes you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
  • Num 20:15 : 15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we were living in Egypt for a long time; and the Egyptians were cruel to us and to our fathers: