Exodus 1:13

13 and worked them ruthlessly.

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Exodus 1:13 in Other Translations

KJV

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

ESV

13 So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves

NLT

13 So the Egyptians worked the people of Israel without mercy.

MSG

13 and treated them worse than ever, crushing them with slave labor.

CSB

13 They worked the Israelites ruthlessly

Exodus 1:13 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 1:13

And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve
with rigour.
Or with breach ^F3, with what might tend to break their strength; they laid heavier burdens upon them, obliged them to harder service, used them more cruelly and with greater fierceness, adding to their hard service ill words, and perhaps blows.

FOOTNOTES:

F3 (Krpb) "in fractione", Cajetan. apud Rivet.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Exodus 1:13 In-Context

11 So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

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

13 and worked them ruthlessly.

14 They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.

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

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1. ver 14; Genesis 15:13-14; Exodus 5:21; Exodus 16:3; Lev 25:43,46,53; Deuteronomy 4:20; Deuteronomy 26:6; 1 Kings 8:51; Psalms 129:1; Isaiah 30:6; Isaiah 48:10; Jeremiah 11:4

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