Exodus 1:12

World English Bible (2000)

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.

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  • Exod 1:9 : 9 He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
  • Job 5:2 : 2 For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
  • Ps 105:24 : 24 He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.
  • Prov 21:30 : 30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.
  • Prov 27:4 : 4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
  • John 12:19 : 19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him."
  • Acts 4:2-4 : 2 being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3 They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening. 4 But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
  • Acts 5:28-33 : 28 saying, "Didn't we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood on us." 29 But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men. 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree. 31 God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins. 32 We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him." 33 But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and determined to kill them.
  • Rom 8:28 : 28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
  • Heb 12:6-9 : 6 For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives." 7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children. 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. 11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

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  • Exod 1:7-11
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    7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

    8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn't know Joseph.

    9 He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

    10 Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land."

    11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

  • Exod 1:13-14
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    13 The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,

    14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

  • Deut 26:6
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    6 The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage:

  • Ps 105:24
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    24 He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.

  • Exod 2:23-24
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    23 It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

    24 God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

  • Num 20:15
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    15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

  • Exod 1:19-20
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    19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them."

    20 God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

  • Exod 5:14-15
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    14 The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, "Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?"

    15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants?

  • Exod 6:9
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    9 Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

  • Exod 14:10
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    10 When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.

  • Gen 47:27
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    27 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.

  • Exod 5:19
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    19 The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, "You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!"

  • Acts 7:17
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    17 "But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

  • Exod 14:5
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    5 It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"

  • Exod 3:9
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    9 Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

  • Exod 12:36
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    36 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the Egyptians.

  • Exod 14:8
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    8 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.

  • Exod 5:12
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    12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

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    3 Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.'

  • Exod 5:4
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    4 The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!"