New Revised Standard Version
After a long time the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their slavery, and cried out. Out of the slavery their cry for help rose up to God.

Contemporary English Version
After the death of the king of Egypt, the Israelites still complained because they were forced to be slaves. They cried out for help,

New American Bible
A long time passed, during which the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their bondage and cried out, and from their bondage their cry for help went up to God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works.

Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works.

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2504. B.C. cir.

1500. in process.

Exodus 7:7 And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharao.

Acts 7:30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him, in the desert of mount Sina, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush.

the king.

Exodus 4:19 And the Lord said to Moses, in Madian: Go, and return into Egypt; for they are all dead that sought thy life.

Matthew 2:19,20 But when Herod was dead, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph in Egypt, . . .

Acts 12:23,24 And forthwith an angel of the Lord struck him, because he had not given the honour to God: and, being eaten up by worms, he gave up the ghost. . . .

sighed.

Genesis 16:11 And again: Behold, said he, thou art with child, and thou shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Ismael, because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.

Numbers 20:16 And how we cried to the Lord, and he heard us, and sent an angel, who hath brought us out of Egypt. Lo, we are now in the city of Cades, which is in the uttermost of thy borders,

Deuteronomy 26:6,7 And the Egyptians afflicted us, and persecuted us, laying on us most grievous burdens: . . .

Psalm 12:5 By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of the poor, now will I arise, saith the Lord. I will set him in safety: I will deal confidently in his regard.

cry.

Exodus 3:7-9 And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works; . . .

Exodus 22:22-27 You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan. . . .

Genesis 4:10 And he said to him: What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the earth.

Genesis 18:20,21 And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous. . . .

Deuteronomy 24:15 But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day, before the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it maintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a sin.

Judges 10:11,12 And the Lord said to them: Did not the Egyptians, and the Amorrhites, and the children of Ammon, and the Philistines, . . .

Nehemiah 9:9 And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt: and thou didst hear their cry by the Red Sea.

Psalm 18:6 In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came into his ears.

Psalm 81:6,7 He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets. . . .

Psalm 107:19,20 And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he delivered them out of their distresses. . . .

Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.

Isaiah 19:20 It shall be for a sign, and for a testimony to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt. For they shall cry to the Lord because of the oppressor, and he shall send them a Saviour and a defender to deliver them.

James 5:4 Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.