Exodus 1:14
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14 and (A)made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.
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Acts 7:19
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19 (A)He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, (B)so that they would not be kept alive.
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Numbers 20:15
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15 (A)how our fathers went down to Egypt, (B)and we lived in Egypt a long time. (C)And the Egyptians dealt harshly with us and our fathers.
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Exodus 6:9
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9 Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they (A)did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.
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Exodus 2:23
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God Hears Israel's Groaning
23 (A)During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel (B)groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. (C)Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.
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Acts 7:34
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34 (A)I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and (B)have heard their groaning, and (C)I have come down to deliver them. (D)And now come, I will send you to Egypt.’
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Isaiah 58:6
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6 “Is not this the fast that I choose:
(A)to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps (B)of the yoke,
to let the oppressed[a] go free,
and to break every yoke?
Footnotes
- Isaiah 58:6 Or bruised
Psalm 81:6
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Footnotes
- Psalm 81:6 Hebrew his; also next line
Nahum 3:14
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14 (A)Draw water for the siege;
(B)strengthen your forts;
go into the clay;
tread the mortar;
take hold of the brick mold!
Micah 3:3
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3 (A)who eat the flesh of my people,
and flay their skin from off them,
and break their bones in pieces
and chop them up like meat in a pot,
like flesh in a cauldron.
Jeremiah 50:33-34
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33 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: (A)The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah with them. All who took them captive have held them fast; (B)they refuse to let them go. 34 (C)Their Redeemer is strong; (D)the Lord of hosts is his name. (E)He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.
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Isaiah 52:5
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5 Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and (A)continually all the day my name is despised.
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Isaiah 51:23
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23 (A)and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,
(B)who have said to you,
‘Bow down, that we may pass over’;
and (C)you have made your back like the ground
and like the street for them to pass over.”
Isaiah 14:6
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6 (A)that struck the peoples in wrath
with unceasing blows,
that ruled the nations in anger
with unrelenting persecution.
Psalm 68:13
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13 though you men lie among (A)the sheepfolds—
the wings of a dove covered with silver,
its pinions with shimmering gold.
Ruth 1:20
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20 She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi;[a] call me (A)Mara,[b] for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
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Deuteronomy 26:6
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6 And (A)the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor.
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Deuteronomy 4:20
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20 But the Lord has taken you and (A)brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, (B)to be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day.
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Leviticus 25:53
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53 He shall treat him as a worker hired year by year. (A)He shall not rule ruthlessly over him in your sight.
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Leviticus 25:46
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46 You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel (A)you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.
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Leviticus 25:43
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43 (A)You shall not rule over him (B)ruthlessly but (C)shall fear your God.
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Exodus 20:2
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2 (A)“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
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Exodus 5:7-21
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7 “You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past; let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8 But the number of bricks that they made in the past you shall impose on them, you shall by no means reduce it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.’ 9 Let heavier work be laid on the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.”
10 So the (A)taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not give you straw. 11 Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.’” 12 So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. 13 The (B)taskmasters were urgent, saying, “Complete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw.” 14 And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh's (C)taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past?”
15 Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, “Why do you treat your servants like this? 16 No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.” 17 But he said, “You are idle, you are idle; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’ 18 Go now and work. No straw will be given you, but you must still deliver the same number of bricks.” 19 The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they said, “You shall by no means reduce your number of bricks, your daily task each day.” 20 They met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them, as they came out from Pharaoh; 21 and (D)they said to them, “The Lord look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.”
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Exodus 1:13
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13 So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel (A)work as slaves
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Genesis 15:13
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13 Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain (A)that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and (B)they will be afflicted for (C)four hundred years.
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