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Slaves in Egypt

Name: Slaves in Egypt
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Hebrew slaves in Egypt strain under forced labor as they haul timber, shape bricks, and work among rising walls and scaffolding. An Egyptian overseer stands at the right with staff in hand, watching the laborers while baskets of materials are carried through the construction site. The scene recalls Israel’s oppression before the Exodus, when Pharaoh set taskmasters over the children of Israel and made their lives bitter with hard service in brick, mortar, and field labor. The image speaks to the bondage from which God would soon deliver His covenant people through Moses, revealing the Lord as the One who hears the cry of the oppressed and acts in redemption.

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Keywords	bondage egypt exodus Hebrew slaves israelites slavery
Secondary Keywords	brickmaking construction deliverance forced labor israel oppression pharaoh scaffolding slave taskmaster timber work
Tertiary Keywords	brick mortar covenant people Egyptian overseer hard service Moses era redemption
Scriptures	Exodus 1:11-14 Exodus 2:23-25 Exodus 5:6-18 Exodus 1 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel. 13 So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves 14 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 2 23 During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 God saw the people of Israel—and God knew. Exodus 5 6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen, 7 “You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past; let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8 But the number of bricks that they made in the past you shall impose on them, you shall by no means reduce it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.’ 9 Let heavier work be laid on the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.” 10 So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not give you straw. 11 Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.’” 12 So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. 13 The taskmasters were urgent, saying, “Complete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw.” 14 And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past?” 15 Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, “Why do you treat your servants like this? 16 No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.” 17 But he said, “You are idle, you are idle; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’ 18 Go now and work. No straw will be given you, but you must still deliver the same number of bricks.”

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