Deuteronomy 26:6 “But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard l…”

Deuteronomy 26:6

But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

World English Bible

The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.

American Standard Version

And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

Geneva Bible 1599

And the Egyptians vexed vs, and troubled vs, and laded vs with cruell bondage.

Darby Translation

And the Egyptians evil-entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage;

Young's Literal Translation

and the Egyptians do us evil, and afflict us, and put on us hard service;

Bible in Basic English

And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke:

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Cross references

“And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:”

Exodus 1:11 Exodus 1:14 Deuteronomy 4:20 Exodus 1:16 Exodus 1:22 Exodus 5:9

Exodus 1:11 · BSB

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.

Exodus 1:14 · BSB

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.

Deuteronomy 4:20 · BSB

Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.

Exodus 1:16 · BSB

“When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.”

Exodus 1:22 · BSB

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”

Exodus 5:9 · BSB

Make the work harder on the men so they will be occupied and pay no attention to these lies.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.

7So we called out to the LORD, the God of our fathers; and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, toil, and oppression.

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