Quotes About Israelites

So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

They worked the Israelites ruthlessly

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.

God saw the Israelites and took notice.

Therefore, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring My people the Israelites out of Egypt.”

Then Moses asked God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ëThe God of your fathers has sent me to you,í and they ask me, ëWhat is His name?í What should I tell them?”

God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ëThe LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.í This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.

Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites,

and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.

That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen:

The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your daily quota of bricks.”

Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered My covenant.

Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.

Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge concerning both the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.

It was this Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, “Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.”

Moses and Aaron were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt in order to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.

You are to speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land.

Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay My hand on Egypt, and by mighty acts of judgment I will bring the divisions of My people the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.

And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out from among them.”

And the next day the LORD did just that. All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one animal belonging to the Israelites died.

Pharaoh sent officials and found that none of the livestock of the Israelites had died. But Pharaohís heart was hardened, and he would not let the people go.

The only place where it did not hail was in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived.

So Pharaohís heart was hardened, and he would not let the Israelites go, just as the LORD had said through Moses.

But the LORD hardened Pharaohís heart, and he would not let the Israelites go.