EXO 1:14 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) and they made their lives bitter with the hard slavery. They were forced to make mortar and bricks, as well as all kinds of slave labour in the fields—all the work they had to do was strenuous and tiring.

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Καὶ κατωδύνων αὐτῶν τὴν ζωὴν ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις τοῖς σκληροῖς, τῷ πηλῷ καὶ τῇ πλινθείᾳ, καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς ἔργοις τοῖς ἐν τοῖς πεδίοις, κατὰ πάντα τὰ ἔργα, ὧν κατεδουλοῦντο αὐτοὺς μετὰ βίας.
(Kai katōdunōn autōn taʸn zōaʸn en tois ergois tois sklaʸrois, tōi paʸlōi kai taʸ plintheia, kai pasi tois ergois tois en tois pediois, kata panta ta erga, hōn katedoulounto autous meta bias. )

BrTr And they embittered their life by hard labours, in the clay and in brick-making, and all the works in the plains, according to all the works, wherein they caused them to serve with violence.

NETS and were grievously afflicting their life by the hard tasks in clay and brick making and all the tasks in the plains, according to all the tasks in which they were enslaving them with force.

ULT And they embittered their lives by hard slavery, by mortar and by bricks, and by all kinds of slave labor in the fields; all their work with which they worked for them was with rigor.

UST and made their lives miserable by forcing them to work hard. The Israelites built with bricks and mortar and did all sorts of agricultural work. The Egyptians ruthlessly gave them all sorts of work.

BSB 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.

OEB No OEB EXO book available

WEBBE and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.

LSV and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every [kind] of service in the field; all their service in which they have served [is] with rigor.

FBV making their lives a misery. They made them do hard labor, building with mortar and brick, and all kind of heavy work in the fields. In all of this hard labor they treated them brutally.

T4T and by making them slaves, they made their lives miserable. They forced them to build many buildings with mortar and bricks. They also forced them to do other work in the fields. In making them do all this work, the Egyptian officials treated them ruthlessly/cruelly.

LEB And they made their lives bitter with hard work with mortar and with bricks and with all sorts of work in the field—with all their work in which they ruthlessly enslaved them.

BBE And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.

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JPS And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field; in all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigour.

ASV and 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.

DRA And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay, and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.

YLT and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every [kind] of service in the field; all their service in which they have served [is] with rigour.

Drby and they embittered their life with hard labour in clay and bricks, and in all manner of labour in the field: all their labour with which they made them serve was with harshness.

RV and 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 rigour.

Wbstr And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service in which they made them serve, was with rigor.

KJB-1769 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.

KJB-1611 And they made their liues bitter, with hard bondage, in morter and in bricke, and in all maner of seruice in the fielde: all their seruice wherein they made them serue, was 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 serue, was with rigour.)

Bshps And they made their lyues bytter vnto them in that cruell bondage, in claye, and bricke, and all maner of worke in the fielde: for all their bondage wherein they serued them was ful of tirannie.
(And they made their lives bytter unto them in that cruell bondage, in clay, and brick, and all manner of work in the field: for all their bondage wherein they served them was full of tirannie.)

Gnva Thus they made them weary of their liues by sore labour in clay and in bricke, and in al worke in the fielde, with all maner of bondage, which they layde vpon them most cruelly.
(Thus they made them weary of their lives by sore labour in clay and in brick, and in all work in the field, with all manner of bondage, which they laid upon them most cruelly. )

Cvdl and made their lyues bytter vnto them with greuous laboure in claye and brycke, and with allmaner of bondage in ye felde, and with allmaner of laboure, which they layed vpon them without mercy.
(and made their lives bytter unto them with greuous laboure in clay and brick, and with allmaner of bondage in ye/you_all field, and with allmaner of laboure, which they laid upon them without mercy.)

Wycl and brouyten her lijf to bitternesse bi hard werkis of cley and to tijl stoon, and bi al seruage, bi which thei weren oppressid in the werkis of erthe.
(and brought her life to bitterness by hard works of clay and to tijl stone, and by all seruage, by which they were oppressed in the works of earth.)

Luth und machten ihnen ihr Leben sauer mit schwerer Arbeit im Ton und Ziegeln und mit allerlei Frönen auf dem Felde und mit allerlei Arbeit, die sie ihnen auflegten mit Unbarmherzigkeit.
(and make to_them you/their/her life sauer with schwerer Arbeit in_the Ton and Ziegeln and with allerlei Frönen on to_him field and with allerlei Arbeit, the they/she/them to_them auflegten with Unbarmherzigkeit.)

ClVg atque ad amaritudinem perducebant vitam eorum operibus duris luti et lateris, omnique famulatu, quo in terræ operibus premebantur.
(atque to amaritudinem perducebant life their operibus duris luti and lateris, omnique famulatu, quo in terræ operibus premebantur. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

וַ⁠יְמָרְר֨וּ אֶת־חַיֵּי⁠הֶ֜ם

and,made_~_bitter DOM lives,their

The difficult lives of the Israelites are spoken of as if their daily lives were bitter food that was difficult to eat. If your readers would not understand what this image means in this context, you could use an equivalent metaphor from your culture. Alternatively, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “And they made their lives very difficult”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

בַּ⁠עֲבֹדָ֣ה קָשָׁ֗ה

in/on/at/with,labor hard

If your language does not use an abstract noun for this idea, you can express the idea behind slavery in another way. Alternative translation: “by making them work hard as slaves”

Note 3 topic: translate-unknown

בְּ⁠חֹ֨מֶר֙

in/on/at/with,mortar

Mortar is a mixture of lime with cement, sand, and water, used in building to bond bricks or stones.

Note 4 topic: translate-unknown

וּ⁠בִ⁠לְבֵנִ֔ים

and,in/on/at/with,brick

Bricks are blocks made of clay or mud with straw in them. They are hardened in the sun or in another manner before they are used for building.

אֵ֚ת כָּל־עֲבֹ֣דָתָ֔⁠ם אֲשֶׁר־עָבְד֥וּ בָ⁠הֶ֖ם בְּ⁠פָֽרֶךְ׃

DOM all/each/any/every work,their which/who imposed in/among=them (Some words not found in UHB: and,made_~_bitter DOM lives,their in/on/at/with,labor hard in/on/at/with,mortar and,in/on/at/with,brick and=on/over=all work in_the=field DOM all/each/any/every work,their which/who imposed in/among=them in/on/at/with,ruthlessly )

See how you translated this in 1:13. Alternate translation: “the Egyptians made them work very hard” or “the Egyptians forced them to work very hard”

Note 5 topic: writing-pronouns

וַ⁠יְמָרְר֨וּ & בָ⁠הֶ֖ם

and,made_~_bitter & in/among=them

Here, they and them refer to the Egyptians.

Note 6 topic: writing-pronouns

חַיֵּי⁠הֶ֜ם & עֲבֹ֣דָתָ֔⁠ם & עָבְד֥וּ

lives,their & work,their & imposed

Here, their and they refer to the Israelites.

Note 7 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

בְּ⁠פָֽרֶךְ

in/on/at/with,ruthlessly

See how you translated rigor in the previous verse.

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