11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them (A)to afflict them with their (B)burdens. And they built for Pharaoh (C)supply cities, Pithom (D)and Raamses.

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

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13 Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly (A)that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and (B)they will afflict them four hundred years.

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13 Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years(A) your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved(B) and mistreated there.

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11 And Joseph situated his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of (A)Rameses, (B)as Pharaoh had commanded.

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11 So Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land,(A) the district of Rameses,(B) as Pharaoh directed.

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And the Lord said: (A)“I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry (B)because of their taskmasters, (C)for I know their [a]sorrows.

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  1. Exodus 3:7 pain

The Lord said, “I have indeed seen(A) the misery(B) of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned(C) about their suffering.(D)

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Moses Flees to Midian(A)

11 Now it came to pass in those days, (B)when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

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Moses Flees to Midian

11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people(A) were and watched them at their hard labor.(B) He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

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“I removed his shoulder from the burden;
His hands were freed from the baskets.

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“I removed the burden(A) from their shoulders;(B)
    their hands were set free from the basket.

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But the (A)Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us.

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But the Egyptians mistreated us and made us suffer,(A) subjecting us to harsh labor.(B)

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15 (A)how our fathers went down to Egypt, (B)and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, (C)and the Egyptians [a]afflicted us and our fathers.

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  1. Numbers 20:15 did evil to

15 Our ancestors went down into Egypt,(A) and we lived there many years.(B) The Egyptians mistreated(C) us and our ancestors,

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Therefore say to the children of Israel: (A)‘I am the Lord; (B)I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will (C)rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with [a]an outstretched arm and with great judgments. I will (D)take you as My people, and (E)I will be your God. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God who brings you out (F)from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

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  1. Exodus 6:6 Mighty power

“Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.(A) I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem(B) you with an outstretched arm(C) and with mighty acts of judgment.(D) I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God.(E) Then you will know(F) that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

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Wrath is cruel and anger a torrent,
But (A)who is able to stand before jealousy?

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Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming,
    but who can stand before jealousy?(A)

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13 When they went from one nation to another,
From one kingdom to another people,

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13 they wandered from nation to nation,(A)
    from one kingdom to another.

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13 (A)Though you lie down among the [a]sheepfolds,
(B)You will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver,
And her feathers with yellow gold.”

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  1. Psalm 68:13 Or saddlebags

13 Even while you sleep among the sheep pens,[a](A)
    the wings of my dove are sheathed with silver,
    its feathers with shining gold.”

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  1. Psalm 68:13 Or the campfires; or the saddlebags

(A)He also built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities which he built in (B)Hamath.

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He also built up Tadmor in the desert and all the store cities he had built in Hamath.(A)

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