Graphic Bible · Scene 8 of 16

Hebrew workers make mudbrick and carry heavy baskets under Egyptian overseers; exhausting heat, storage-city construction, no pyramids.
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Exodus 1:14

Bitter Labor

A family becomes a people · Exodus 1

Story guide: Hard labor in mortar, bricks, and the fields makes Israel’s life bitter.

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14And they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and in every kind of field work—all their labor that they imposed on them with harshness.

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