Exodus 1:12 KJV — MannaFest

Exodus 1:12

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

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ASV

But 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.

WEB

But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.

YLT

and as they afflict it, so it multiplieth, and so it breaketh forth, and they are vexed because of the sons of Israel;

DBT

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and spread; and they were distressed because of the children of Israel.

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Exodus — Deliverance, covenant, presence. A slave-people redeemed from Egypt, brought to Sinai, and given a tabernacle so that God might dwell among them.

Author: Moses — traditional attribution; internal narrator identifies Moses as recorder (17:14, 24:4, 34:27)
Date: 15th or 13th century BC, depending on chronology of the exodus

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Psalms 105:24
And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.
Exodus 1:9
And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
Psalms 129:1
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Exodus 1:20
Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.

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It was strange that they did not rather pick quarrels with the grown men, against whom they might perhaps find some occasion: to be thus bloody towards the infants, whom all must own to be innocents, was a sin which they had to cloak for. There is more cruelty in the corrupt heart of man than one would imagine, Rom. iii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

And it is to be feared that the oppression they were under had this bad effect upon them, that it brought over many of them to join with the Egyptians in their idolatrous worship; for we read ( Josh. xxiv. 14 ) that they served other gods in Egypt; and, though it is not mentioned here in this history, yet we find ( Ezek. xx.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied - To the grief and vexation of the Egyptians. Times of affliction, have oft been the church's growing times: Christianity spread most when it was persecuted.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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