Exodus 1:14
King James Version (KJV)
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigor.
Translations
Exodus 1:14 - Amplified Bible
They made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar, brick, and all kinds of work in the field. All their service was with harshness {and} severity.
Exodus 1:14 - American Standard Version
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.
Exodus 1:14 - Bible in Basic English
And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.
Exodus 1:14 - Darby Bible
and they embittered their life with hard labour in clay and bricks, and in all manner of labour in the field: all their labour with which they made them serve was with harshness.
Exodus 1:14 - English Standard Version
and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.
Exodus 1:14 - King James Version
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigor.
Exodus 1:14 - La Biblia de las Americas
y les amargaron la vida con dura servidumbre en hacer barro y ladrillos y en toda clase de trabajo del campo; todos sus trabajos se los imponìan con rigor.
Exodus 1:14 - The Message
Exodus 1:14 - New American Standard Bible
and they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all {kinds} of labor in the field, all their labors which they rigorously imposed on them.
Exodus 1:14 - Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy
y les amargaron la vida con dura servidumbre en hacer barro y ladrillos y en toda clase de trabajo del campo. Todos sus trabajos se los imponìan con rigor.
Exodus 1:14 - World English Bible
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, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
Exodus 1:14 - Young's Living Translation
and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every [kind] of service in the field; all their service in which they have served [is] with rigour.
Exodus 1:14 - Additional Comments
The Hebrew for "bitter" means to grieve, provoke, vex. It was cruel enough that it caused all the Israelites to have poor attitudes. No one, it would seem, would fault them for bad attitudes.
The Hebrew for "rigor" means literally to break apart, but means with severity, cruelty.
The king's forced labor on the Israelites was intended to break their will. In the same way, Satan gives us difficulties to break our will. How much more difficult it is to maintain a good attitude in difficulties than when things are going well. Yet, difficulties, more than in good times, draw people to God. Israel's hard times may have caused them to look to God more than when they were not oppressed.
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