Verse 11

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

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 15:13 : 13 He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
  • Gen 47:11 : 11 Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
  • Exod 2:11 : 11 It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
  • Deut 26:6 : 6 The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage:
  • Ps 81:6 : 6 "I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.
  • Ps 105:13 : 13 They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
  • Prov 27:4 : 4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
  • 1 Kgs 9:19 : 19 and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
  • 2 Chr 8:4 : 4 He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities, which he built in Hamath.
  • Ps 68:13 : 13 while you sleep among the campfires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.
  • Exod 5:4-6 : 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!" 5 Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens." 6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
  • Exod 5:15 : 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 6:6-7 : 6 Therefore tell the children of Israel, 'I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments: 7 and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
  • Num 20:15 : 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: