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Exodus 1:12 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. "
Exodus 1:12
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Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
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.
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Exodus 1:1
"Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob."
Exodus 1:2
"Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,"
Exodus 1:3
"Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,"
Exodus 1:4
"Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher."
Exodus 1:5
"And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt"
Exodus 1:6
"And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation."
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