Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 2:23 : 23 The 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 6:9 : 9 Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.
  • 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.
  • Acts 7:19 : 19 This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.
  • Acts 7:34 : 34 I have certainly seen the suffering of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Now come, I will send you to Egypt.’
  • Ps 81:6 : 6 It said:“I removed the burden from his shoulder; his hands were released from holding the basket.
  • Isa 14:6 : 6 It furiously struck down nations with unceasing blows. It angrily ruled over nations, oppressing them without restraint.
  • Isa 51:23 : 23 I will put it into the hand of your tormentors who said to you,‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’ You made your back like the ground, and like the street for those who walked over you.”
  • Isa 52:5 : 5 And now, what do we have here?” says the LORD.“Indeed my people have been carried away for nothing, those who rule over them taunt,” says the LORD,“and my name is constantly slandered all day long.
  • Isa 58:6 : 6 No, this is the kind of fast I want. I want you to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, and to break every burdensome yoke.
  • Jer 50:33-34 : 33 The LORD of Heaven’s Armies says,“The people of Israel are oppressed. So too are the people of Judah. All those who took them captive are holding them prisoners. They refuse to set them free. 34 But the one who will rescue them is strong. His name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. He will strongly champion their cause. As a result he will bring peace and rest to the earth, but trouble and turmoil to the people who inhabit Babylonia.
  • Mic 3:3 : 3 You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot– like meat in a kettle.
  • Nah 3:14 : 14 Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!
  • Exod 20:2 : 2 “I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
  • Lev 25:43 : 43 You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God.
  • Lev 25:46 : 46 You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.
  • Lev 25:53 : 53 He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.
  • Exod 5:7-9 : 7 “You must no longer give straw to the people for making bricks as before. Let them go and collect straw for themselves. 8 But you must require of them the same quota of bricks that they were making before. Do not reduce it, for they are slackers. That is why they are crying,‘Let us go sacrifice to our God.’ 9 Make the work harder for the men so they will keep at it and pay no attention to lying words!” 10 So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said,“Thus says Pharaoh:‘I am not giving you straw. 11 You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’” 12 So the people spread out through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw. 13 The slave masters were pressuring them, saying,“Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!” 14 The 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?” 15 The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh,“Why are you treating your servants this way? 16 No 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.” 17 But Pharaoh replied,“You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying,‘Let us go sacrifice to the LORD.’” 18 So now, get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still produce your quota of bricks!” 19 The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told,“You must not reduce the daily quota of your bricks.” 20 When they went out from Pharaoh, they encountered Moses and Aaron standing there to meet them, 21 and 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!”
  • 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.
  • Exod 1:13 : 13 and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.
  • 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.
  • Deut 26:6 : 6 But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.
  • Ruth 1:20 : 20 But she replied to them,“Don’t call me‘Naomi’! Call me‘Mara’ because the Sovereign One has treated me very harshly.
  • Ps 68:13 : 13 When you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver and with glittering gold.