Exodus 6:9

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Exod 5:21 : 21 and they said to them, "May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."
  • Exod 14:12 : 12 Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."
  • Num 21:4 : 4 They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
  • Job 21:4 : 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?
  • Prov 14:19 : 19 The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

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    10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

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    12 Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, "Behold, the children of Israel haven't listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, who am of uncircumcised lips?"

    13 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a command to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

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

  • 1 Sam 6:6
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    6 Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn't they let the people go, and they departed?

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    5 Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.

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    12 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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  • Num 14:39
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    39 Moses told these words to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

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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.

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    12 Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."

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    16 "But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, didn't listen to your commandments,

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    12 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn't listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.

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

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    35 The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn't let the children of Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses.

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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.

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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 17:3-4
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    3 The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

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    10 Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.

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    1 Moses answered, "But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, 'Yahweh has not appeared to you.'"

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    13 Moses said to Yahweh, "Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;

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    25 but murmured in their tents, and didn't listen to Yahweh's voice.

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    9 Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

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    28 It happened on the day when Yahweh spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,

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    11 Yahweh said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

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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.

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    32 They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;

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    41 Moses said, "Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?

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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!"