Exodus 1:11

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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.

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  • Gen 15:13 : 13 Then the LORD said to Abram,“Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
  • Gen 47:11 : 11 So Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them territory in the land of Egypt, in the best region of the land, the land of Rameses, just as Pharaoh had commanded.
  • Exod 2:11 : 11 The Presumption of the Deliverer In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people.
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 The 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.
  • Deut 26:6 : 6 But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.
  • Ps 81:6 : 6 It said:“I removed the burden from his shoulder; his hands were released from holding the basket.
  • Ps 105:13 : 13 they wandered from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another.
  • Prov 27:4 : 4 Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
  • 1 Kgs 9:19 : 19 all the storage cities that belonged to him, and the cities where chariots and horses were kept. He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom.
  • 2 Chr 8:4 : 4 He built up Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage cities he had built in Hamath.
  • Ps 68:13 : 13 When you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver and with glittering gold.
  • Exod 5:4-6 : 4 The king of Egypt said to them,“Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!” 5 Pharaoh was thinking,“The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.” 6 That same day Pharaoh commanded the slave masters and foremen who were over the people:
  • Exod 5:15 : 15 The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh,“Why are you treating your servants this way?
  • Exod 6:6-7 : 6 Therefore, tell the Israelites,‘I am the LORD. I will bring you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians, I will rescue you from the hard labor they impose, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. 7 I will take you to myself for a people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians.
  • Num 20:15 : 15 how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.

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    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.

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    12So the people spread out through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.

    13The slave masters were pressuring them, saying,“Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!”

    14The Israelite foremen whom Pharaoh’s slave masters had set over them were beaten and were asked,“Why did you not complete your requirement for brickmaking as in the past– both yesterday and today?”

    15The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh,“Why are you treating your servants this way?

    16No straw is given to your servants, but we are told,‘Make bricks!’ Your servants are even being beaten, but the fault is with your people.”

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    6That same day Pharaoh commanded the slave masters and foremen who were over the people:

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    8Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power over Egypt.

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    6But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.

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    19The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told,“You must not reduce the daily quota of your bricks.”

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    9Make the work harder for the men so they will keep at it and pay no attention to lying words!”

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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!”

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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.

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    18They went from Midian to Paran; they took some men from Paran and went to Egypt. Pharaoh, king of Egypt, gave him a house and some land and supplied him with food.

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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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    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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    3Pharaoh will think regarding the Israelites,‘They are wandering around confused in the land– the desert has closed in on them.’

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