Deuteronomy 26:6

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But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 1:11 : 11 So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
  • Exod 1:14 : 14 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.
  • Exod 1:16 : 16 “When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live.”
  • Exod 1:22 : 22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people,“All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”
  • Exod 5:9 : 9 Make the work harder for the men so they will keep at it and pay no attention to lying words!”
  • Exod 5:19 : 19 The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told,“You must not reduce the daily quota of your bricks.”
  • Exod 5:23 : 23 From the time I went to speak to Pharaoh in your name, he has caused trouble for this people, and you have certainly not rescued them!”
  • Deut 4:20 : 20 You, however, the LORD has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    15how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.

  • Exod 1:11-14
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    11So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

    12But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. As a result the Egyptians loathed the Israelites,

    13and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.

    14They 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.

  • Deut 26:7-8
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    7So we cried out to the LORD, the God of our ancestors, and he heard us and saw our humiliation, toil, and oppression.

    8Therefore the LORD brought us out of Egypt with tremendous strength and power, as well as with great awe-inspiring signs and wonders.

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    9Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.

  • Deut 6:21-22
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    76%

    21you must say to them,“We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt in a powerful way.

    22And he brought signs and great, devastating wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on his whole family before our very eyes.

  • Lam 5:5-6
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    5We are pursued– they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest.

    6We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.

  • Exod 6:5
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    5I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.

  • Exod 14:5
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    5When it was reported to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people, and the king and his servants said,“What in the world have we done? For we have released the people of Israel from serving us!”

  • 1 Sam 6:6
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    6Why harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When God treated them harshly, didn’t the Egyptians send the Israelites on their way?

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    11and they said to Moses,“Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

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  • Acts 7:19
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    19This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

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    23The Call of the Deliverer During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God.

  • Exod 5:21
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    21and they said to them,“May the LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh and his servants, so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!”

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    6But God spoke as follows:‘Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.

  • Exod 5:15-16
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    15The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh,“Why are you treating your servants this way?

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  • Deut 26:5
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    5Then you must affirm before the LORD your God,“A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number, but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.

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    4The king of Egypt said to them,“Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!”

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    11Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.

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    9And now indeed the cry of the Israelites has come to me, and I have also seen how severely the Egyptians oppress them.

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    33The Egyptians were urging the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, for they were saying,“We are all dead!”

  • Ps 66:11
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    11You led us into a trap; you caused us to suffer.

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    13The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge for the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.

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    36The LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and they gave them whatever they wanted, and so they plundered Egypt.

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    72%

    8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.

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    7The LORD said,“I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

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    72%

    16The Results of Disobedience“(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.