Verse 15

Our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived there for a long time. But the Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors.

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  • Gen 46:6 : 6 They also took with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan. Jacob and all his descendants went to Egypt.
  • Exod 12:40 : 40 Now the time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.
  • Deut 26:6 : 6 But the Egyptians mistreated us, oppressed us, and subjected us to harsh labor.
  • Acts 7:15 : 15 So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our ancestors died.
  • Gen 15:13 : 13 The LORD said to him, "Know for certain that your descendants will be foreigners in a land not their own, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years."
  • Acts 7:19 : 19 This king dealt deceitfully with our people and oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to abandon their infants, so they would not survive.
  • Num 11:5 : 5 We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
  • Num 16:13 : 13 Isn't it enough that you brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also lord it over us?
  • Exod 1:11-14 : 11 So they appointed taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities for Pharaoh—Pithom and Rameses. 12 Yet, the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites. 13 The Egyptians forced the Israelites to work as slaves. 14 They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor, the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.
  • Exod 1:16 : 16 "When you help the Hebrew women give birth and observe them on the birthing stools, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live."
  • Exod 1:22 : 22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.
  • Exod 5:14 : 14 And Pharaoh's slave drivers beat the Israelite overseers they had appointed, demanding, "Why haven’t you met your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as before?"