Exodus 1:13-14
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13 So the Egyptians brutally compelled the sons of Israel (A)to slave labor; 14 and they made (B)their lives bitter with [a]hard slave labor in mortar and bricks and in all kinds of slave labor in the field, all their slave labor which they brutally [b]compelled them to do.
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- Exodus 1:14 Lit stiff
- Exodus 1:14 Lit worked through them
Exodus 5:5-9
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5 And Pharaoh said, “Look, (A)the people of the land are now many, and you would have them cease from their hard labors!” 6 So on that day Pharaoh commanded (B)the taskmasters over the people and their (C)foremen, saying, 7 “You are no longer to give the people straw to make brick as previously; let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8 But the quota of bricks which they were making previously, you shall set upon them; you are not to reduce any of it. Because they are (D)lazy, therefore they are crying out, ‘[a]Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’ 9 Let their slavery be hard on the men, and let them work at it so that they will have no regard for false words.”
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- Exodus 5:8 Lit saying, ‘Let
Exodus 5:16-18
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16 There is no straw given to your slaves, yet they keep saying to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And behold, your slaves are being beaten; but it is the [a]sin of your own people.” 17 But he said, “You are (A)lazy—lazy! Therefore you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’ 18 So now, go and labor; but straw will not be given to you, yet you must deliver the quota of bricks.”
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- Exodus 5:16 Or fault
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