Exodus 1:14

Exodus chapter 1 · verse 14 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor.

Context

v.13And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor:

v.14This passage

v.15And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Leviticus 25:43
Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor, but shalt fear thy God.
Leviticus 25:46
And ye shall make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them shall ye take your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.
Numbers 20:15
how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:
Deuteronomy 26:6
And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
Isaiah 58:6
Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Exodus 20:2
I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.