Exodus 1:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians.

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  • Exod 1:9 : 9 And he said to his people, See, the people of Israel are greater in number and in power than we are:
  • Job 5:2 : 2 For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.
  • Ps 105:24 : 24 And his people were greatly increased, and became stronger than those who were against them.
  • Prov 21:30 : 30 Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.
  • Prov 27:4 : 4 Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?
  • John 12:19 : 19 Then the Pharisees said one to another, You see, you are unable to do anything: the world has gone after him.
  • Acts 4:2-4 : 2 Being greatly troubled because they were teaching the people and preaching Jesus as an example of the coming back from the dead. 3 And they took them and put them in prison till the morning, for it was now evening. 4 But a number of those who gave hearing to the word had faith; and they were now about five thousand.
  • Acts 5:28-33 : 28 We gave you very clear orders not to give teaching in this name: and now Jerusalem is full of your teaching, and you are attempting to make us responsible for this man's death. 29 But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man. 30 The God of our fathers gave Jesus back to life, whom you had put to death, hanging him on a tree. 31 Him God has put on high at his right hand, as a Ruler and a Saviour, to give to Israel a change of heart and forgiveness of sins. 32 And we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who keep his laws. 33 But when these words came to their ears, they were cut to the heart, and had a mind to put them to death.
  • Rom 8:28 : 28 And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.
  • Heb 12:6-9 : 6 For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod. 7 It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father? 8 But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame. 9 And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life? 10 For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is. 11 At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

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  • Exod 1:7-11
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    7 And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.

    8 Now a new king came to power in Egypt, who had no knowledge of Joseph.

    9 And he said to his people, See, the people of Israel are greater in number and in power than we are:

    10 Let us take care for fear that their numbers may become even greater, and if there is a war, they may be joined with those who are against us, and make an attack on us, and go up out of the land.

    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.

  • Exod 1:13-14
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    13 And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:

    14 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.

  • Deut 26:6
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    6 And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke:

  • Ps 105:24
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    24 And his people were greatly increased, and became stronger than those who were against them.

  • Exod 2:23-24
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    23 Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.

    24 And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.

  • Num 20:15
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    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:

  • Exod 1:19-20
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    19 And they said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are strong, and the birth takes place before we come to them.

    20 And the blessing of God was on these women: and the people were increased in number and became very strong.

  • Exod 5:14-15
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    14 And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in making bricks as before?

    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 6:9
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    9 And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, but they gave no attention to him, because of the grief of their spirit and the cruel weight of their work.

  • Exod 14:10
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    10 And when Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel, lifting up their eyes, saw the Egyptians coming after them, and were full of fear; and their cry went up to God.

  • Gen 47:27
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    27 And so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land of Goshen; and they got property there, and became very great in numbers and in wealth.

  • Exod 5:19
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    19 Then the responsible men of the children of Israel saw that they were purposing evil when they said, The number of bricks which you have to make every day will be no less than before.

  • Acts 7:17
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    17 But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt,

  • Exod 14:5
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    5 And word came to Pharaoh of the flight of the people: and the feeling of Pharaoh and of his servants about the people was changed, and they said, Why have we let Israel go, so that they will do no more work for us?

  • Exod 3:9
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    9 For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them.

  • Exod 12:36
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    36 And the Lord had given the people grace in the eyes of the Egyptians so that they gave them whatever was requested. So they took away all their goods from the Egyptians.

  • Exod 14:8
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    8 And the Lord made the heart of Pharaoh hard, and he went after the children of Israel: for the children of Israel had gone out without fear.

  • Exod 5:12
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    12 So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems.

  • Exod 14:3
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    3 And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are wandering without direction, they are shut in by the waste land.

  • Exod 5:4
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    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.