Exodus 1:13
11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- They worked the Israelites ruthlessly
- KJV
- And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
- WEB
- The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,
- ASV
- And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor:
- DARBY
- And the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with harshness;
- BLB
- And Egypt made the sons of Israel serve with harshness,
- ÅB
- Og egypterne tvang Israels barn til å slave for seg,
- OTB
- Egypterne tvang israelittene til å arbeide hardt,
- B1930
- Og egypterne tvang Israels barn til å træle for sig,
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Deuteronomy 4:20
But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
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