Exodus 1:13

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Exodus 1:13

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Berean Standard Bible

They worked the Israelites ruthlessly

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KJV

King James Version

And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:

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WEB

World English Bible

The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,

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ASV

American Standard Version

And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor:

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Berean Literal Bible

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Exodus 1

¹¹ So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

¹² But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.

¹³ They worked the Israelites ruthlessly

¹⁴ and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.

¹⁵ Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,

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