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Historically Grounded Hardship
Commentators confirm that the types of labor described—making bricks and digging irrigation canals—were common tasks for public slaves in ancient Egypt. Archaeological findings and historical records, like Egyptian monuments, corroborate this picture of grueling work, grounding the biblical account in historical reality.
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Exodus
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Albert Barnes
On Exodus 1:14
18th Century
Theologian
The use of brick, common at all times in Egypt, was especially so under the 18th Dynasty. An exact representation of the whole process of brickmaki…
Charles Ellicott
On Exodus 1:14
19th Century
Bishop
In mortar and in brick. —It has been questioned whether the Egyptians used brick as a material for building. No doubt tem…
John Gill
On Exodus 1:14
17th Century
Pastor
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage
So that they had no ease of body nor peace of mind; they had no c…
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Matthew Henry
On Exodus 1:8–14
17th Century
Minister
The land of Egypt became a house of bondage to Israel. The place where we have been happy may soon become the place of our affliction; and that may…