Exodus 1:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and as they afflict it, so it multiplieth, and so it breaketh forth, and they are vexed because of the sons of Israel;

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  • Exod 1:9 : 9 and he saith unto his people, `Lo, the people of the sons of Israel `is' more numerous and mighty than we;
  • Job 5:2 : 2 For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,
  • Ps 105:24 : 24 And He maketh His people very fruitful, And maketh it mightier than its adversaries.
  • Prov 21:30 : 30 There is no wisdom, nor understanding, Nor counsel, over-against Jehovah.
  • Prov 27:4 : 4 Fury `is' fierce, and anger `is' overflowing, And who standeth before jealousy?
  • John 12:19 : 19 the Pharisees, therefore, said among themselves, `Ye see that ye do not gain anything, lo, the world did go after him.'
  • Acts 4:2-4 : 2 being grieved because of their teaching the people, and preaching in Jesus the rising again out of the dead -- 3 and they laid hands upon them, and did put them in custody unto the morrow, for it was evening already; 4 and many of those hearing the word did believe, and the number of the men became, as it were, five thousand.
  • Acts 5:28-33 : 28 saying, `Did not we strictly command you not to teach in this name? and lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and ye intend to bring upon us the blood of this man.' 29 And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men; 30 and the God of our fathers did raise up Jesus, whom ye slew, having hanged upon a tree; 31 this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, hath exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins; 32 and we are His witnesses of these sayings, and the Holy Spirit also, whom God gave to those obeying him.' 33 And they having heard, were cut `to the heart', and were taking counsel to slay them,
  • Rom 8:28 : 28 And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;
  • Heb 12:6-9 : 6 for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;' 7 if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten? 8 and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons. 9 Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising `us', and we were reverencing `them'; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live? 10 for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation; 11 and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it -- it doth yield.

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  • Exod 1:7-11
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    7and the sons of Israel have been fruitful, and they teem, and multiply, and are very very mighty, and the land is filled with them.

    8And there riseth a new king over Egypt, who hath not known Joseph,

    9and he saith unto his people, `Lo, the people of the sons of Israel `is' more numerous and mighty than we;

    10give help! let us act wisely concerning it, lest it multiply, and it hath come to pass, when war happeneth, that it hath been joined, even it, unto those hating us, and hath fought against us, and hath gone out up of the land.'

    11And they set over it princes of tribute, so as to afflict it with their burdens, and it buildeth store-cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses;

  • Exod 1:13-14
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    13and the Egyptians cause the sons of Israel to serve with rigour,

    14and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every `kind' of service in the field; all their service in which they have served `is' with rigour.

  • Deut 26:6
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    6and the Egyptians do us evil, and afflict us, and put on us hard service;

  • Ps 105:24
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    24And He maketh His people very fruitful, And maketh it mightier than its adversaries.

  • Exod 2:23-24
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    23And it cometh to pass during these many days, that the king of Egypt dieth, and the sons of Israel sigh because of the service, and cry, and their cry goeth up unto God, because of the service;

    24and God heareth their groaning, and God remembereth His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob;

  • Num 20:15
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    15that our fathers go down to Egypt, and we dwell in Egypt many days, and the Egyptians do evil to us and to our fathers;

  • Exod 1:19-20
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    19And the midwives say unto Pharaoh, `Because the Hebrew women `are' not as the Egyptian women, for they `are' lively; before the midwife cometh in unto them -- they have borne!'

    20And God doth good to the midwives, and the people multiply, and are very mighty;

  • Exod 5:14-15
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    14And the authorities of the sons of Israel, whom the exactors of Pharaoh have placed over them, are beaten, saying, `Wherefore have ye not completed your portion in making brick as heretofore, both yesterday and to-day?'

    15And the authorities of the sons of Israel come in and cry unto Pharaoh, saying, `Why dost thou thus to thy servants?

  • Exod 6:9
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    9And Moses speaketh so unto the sons of Israel, and they hearkened not unto Moses, for anguish of spirit, and for harsh service.

  • Exod 14:10
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    10And Pharaoh hath drawn near, and the sons of Israel lift up their eyes, and lo, the Egyptians are journeying after them, and they fear exceedingly, and the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah.

  • Gen 47:27
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    27And Israel dwelleth in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they have possession in it, and are fruitful, and multiply exceedingly;

  • Exod 5:19
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    19And the authorities of the sons of Israel see them in affliction, saying, `Ye do not diminish from your bricks; the matter of a day in its day.'

  • Acts 7:17
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    17`And according as the time of the promise was drawing nigh, which God did swear to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

  • Exod 14:5
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    5And it is declared to the king of Egypt that the people hath fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants is turned against the people, and they say, `What `is' this we have done? that we have sent Israel away from our service.'

  • Exod 3:9
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    9`And now, lo, the cry of the sons of Israel hath come in unto Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them,

  • Exod 12:36
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    36and Jehovah hath given the grace of the people in the eyes of the Egyptians, and they cause them to ask, and they spoil the Egyptians.

  • Exod 14:8
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    8and Jehovah strengtheneth the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursueth after the sons of Israel, and the sons of Israel are going out with a high hand,

  • Exod 5:12
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    12And the people is scattered over all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw,

  • Exod 14:3
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    3and Pharaoh hath said of the sons of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut upon them;

  • Exod 5:4
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    4And the king of Egypt saith unto them, `Why, Moses and Aaron, do ye free the people from its works? go to your burdens.'