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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