The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.
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The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.
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And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
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And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage.
Cross-references (8)
Passages linked to Deuteronomy 26:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 1:11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
- Exodus 1:14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
- Exodus 1:16 and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”
- Exodus 1:22 Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”
- Exodus 5:9 Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”
- Exodus 5:23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people. You have not rescued your people at all!”
- Deuteronomy 4:20 But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.
- Exodus 5:19 The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble when it was said, “You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!”
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the Egyptians evil entreated us,.... Ordered their male…
And the Egyptians evil entreated us,.... Ordered their male children to be killed by the midwives, and by another edict to be drowned by the people:
and afflicted us; by setting taskmasters over them, who put heavy burdens upon them:
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and laid upon us hard bondage; in mortar and brick, and all manner of field service, in which they made them serve with rigour, and whereby their lives were made bitter; see Exo 1:9.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6. evil entreated us] JE, Num_20:15.
6. evil entreated us] JE, Num_20:15.
afflicted us] J, Exo_1:11.
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hard bondage] or service. P, Exo_1:14; Exo_6:9, 1Ki_12:4, Isa_14:3.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The Egyptians evil entreated us (cf. Exo_1:11-22 Exo_2:23, etc.)
The Egyptians evil entreated us (cf. Exo_1:11-22 Exo_2:23, etc.)
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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This continues what the Israelite must say when he brings his first crops to Yahweh.
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treated us badly and afflicted us
These two phrases say basically the same thing. They emphasize that the Egyptians acted very harshly. (See: Doublet)
treated us
Here "us" refers to the people of Israel that were living in Egypt. The speaker includes himself as one of the people whether he lived in Egypt or not. (See: Inclusive "We")
he heard our voice
Here "voice" refers to the whole person and his cries or prayers. AT: "he heard our cries" or "he heard our prayers" (See: Metonymy)
our affliction, our labor, and our oppression
"that the Egyptians were afflicting us, that we were doing very hard work, and that the Egyptians were oppressing us"
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