To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

He named him Noah and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.”

When he sees how good is his resting place and how pleasant is his land, he will bend his shoulder to the burden and submit to forced labor.

So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.

Moses Flees to Midian

One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

But the king of Egypt said, “Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people away from their labor? Get back to your work!”

Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh labor.

Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

“Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.

Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you.

But the Egyptians mistreated us and made us suffer, subjecting us to harsh labor.

A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days.

They did not dislodge the Canaanites living in Gezer; to this day the Canaanites live among the people of Ephraim but are required to do forced labor.

However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they subjected the Canaanites to forced labor but did not drive them out completely.

When Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out completely.

Neither did Zebulun drive out the Canaanites living in Kitron or Nahalol, so these Canaanites lived among them, but Zebulun did subject them to forced labor.

Neither did Naphtali drive out those living in Beth Shemesh or Beth Anath; but the Naphtalites too lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, and those living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath became forced laborers for them.

And the Amorites were determined also to hold out in Mount Heres, Aijalon and Shaalbim, but when the power of the tribes of Joseph increased, they too were pressed into forced labor.

His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near the time of delivery. When she heard the news that the ark of God had been captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she went into labor and gave birth, but was overcome by her labor pains.

and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes, and he made them work at brickmaking. David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then he and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.

Adoniram was in charge of forced labor; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was recorder;

Ahishar—palace administrator; Adoniram son of Abda—in charge of forced labor.

King Solomon conscripted laborers from all Israel—thirty thousand men.