Quotes about Oppression
For twelve years they had been subject to Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
- Genesis 14:4
But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.
- Genesis 15:14
and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other.
- Genesis 47:21
“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.
- Exodus 1:9
So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
- Exodus 1:11
But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.
- Exodus 1:12
They worked the Israelites ruthlessly
- Exodus 1:13
and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.
- Exodus 1:14
Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,
- Exodus 1:15
“When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.”
- Exodus 1:16
Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”
- Exodus 1:22
One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
- Exodus 2:11