Exodus 1:13

and they ¹  made the Israelites serve rigorously. ² 

biblegateway Exo 1:13

and worked them ruthlessly.

biblegateway Exo 1:13

The Egyptians compelled the sons of Israel to labor rigorously;

biblegateway Exo 1:13

and decided to make their slavery more bitter still.

biblegateway Exo 1:13

and treated them worse than ever, crushing them with slave labor.

SABDAweb Exo 1:13

And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:

bibleoremus Exo 1:13

The Egyptians became ruthless in imposing tasks on the Israelites,

biblegateway Exo 1:13

So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor.

biblegateway Exo 1:13

and they ¹  made the Israelites serve rigorously. ² 

¹ tn Heb “the Egyptians.” For stylistic reasons this has been replaced by the pronoun “they” in the translation.

² tn Heb “with rigor, oppression.”