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Exodus 1:11

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

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  • WEB World English Bible

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

  • KJV King James Version

    Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.

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Cross-references (15)

Passages linked to Exodus 1:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Genesis 15:13 He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
  • Genesis 47:11 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.
  • Exodus 2:11 In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
  • Exodus 3:7 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.
  • Deuteronomy 26:6 The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.
  • Psalms 81:6 “I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.
  • Exodus 6:6-7 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. I will take you to myself for a people. I will be your God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
  • Numbers 20:15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers.
  • 1 Kings 9:19 all the storage cities that Solomon had, the cities for his chariots, 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 Chronicles 8:4 He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities, which he built in Hamath.
  • Exodus 5:4-6 The king of Egypt said to them, “Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!” Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens.” The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying,
  • Exodus 5:15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?
  • Psalms 68:13 while you sleep among the camp fires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.
  • Psalms 105:13 They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
  • Proverbs 27:4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

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Explain this verse (15 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, corn and provision.

Or, corn and provision.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 1:11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Taskmasters, Heb. masters of tribute, who were to exact…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Therefore they did set taskmasters over them, to afflict…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain They set over them task-masters, to afflict them -…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 11. Set over them task-masters] שרי מסים sarey…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Taskmasters - The Egyptian “Chiefs of tributes.” They were…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Masters. Cruel like himself, who not only made them…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Therefore they did set over them taskmasters--Having first obliged…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11. Taskmasters — Chiefs of tribute. The words are…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11. They were consequently brought into a condition of…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (11) Task-masters.—Heb., chiefs of tributes. The Egyptian system of…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain They did set over them taskmasters. Literally, "lords of…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Egyptians whose job was to force the Israelites to…
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 1:11 Pithom and Rameses have been identified with the…

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