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Exodus 1:13

American Standard Version

And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor:

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Exodus 1:13 in other translations

The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,

Exodus 1:13 · World English Bible

Exodus 1:13 in context

  1. 11Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.
  2. 12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
  3. 13And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor:
  4. 14and 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.
  5. 15And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: