Deuteronomy 26:6

Deuteronomy 26:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
• New International Version (NIV)But the Egyptians mistreated us and made us suffer, subjecting us to harsh labor.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor.
• New King James Version (NKJV)But the Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us.

Context of Deuteronomy 26:6

4Then the priest will take the basket from you and place it before the altar of the Lord your God. 5And you shall say before the Lord your God, ‘My father [Jacob] was a wandering Aramean, and he [along with his family] went down to Egypt and lived there [as strangers], few in number; but while there he became a great, mighty and populous nation. And the Egyptians treated us badly and oppressed us, and imposed hard labor on us. 7Then we cried out to the Lord, the God of our fathers for help, and He heard our voice and saw our suffering and our labor and our [cruel] oppression; 8and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with great terror [suffered by the Egyptians] and with signs and with wonders;

Deuteronomy 26:6 word by word

וַיָּרֵ֧עוּ אֹתָ֛נוּ הַמִּצְרִ֖ים וַיְעַנּ֑וּנוּ וַיִּתְּנ֥וּ עָלֵ֖ינוּ עֲבֹדָ֥ה קָשָֽׁה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And the Egyptiansמִצְרִיmitsrîy · EgyptianH4713
• evil entreatedרָעַעrâ‛a‛ · be evilH7489
• us, and afflictedעָנָה‛ânâh · to afflictH6031
• us, and laidנָתַןnâthan · to give: putH5414
• upon us hardקָשֶׁהqâsheh · severeH7186
• bondageעֲבֹדָה‛ăbôdâh ‛ăbôdâh · service: workH5656

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 26:6

• Deuteronomy 4:20But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron [smelting] furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people for His own possession, as [you are] this day.
• Exodus 1:11So they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with hard labor. And the sons of Israel built Pithom and Raamses as storage cities for Pharaoh.
• Exodus 5:9Let labor be heavier on the men, and let them work [hard] at it so that they will pay no attention to [their God’s] lying words.”

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 26:6

• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-15Under the covenant, God required his people to give him tribute every year, or even more often. Because Israel was an agricultural society, God asked for offerings of animals, crops, or grain. This tribute celebrated the great redemption of the Israelites during the exodus.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-152. Thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth--The Israelites in Canaan, being God's tenants-at-will, were required to give Him tribute in the form of first-fruits and tithes. No Israelite was at liberty to use any productions of his field until he had presented the required offerings. The tribute began to be exigible after the settlement in the promised land, and it was yearly repeated at one of the great feasts (Le 2:14; 23:10; 23:15; Nu…Read the comment

Topics related to Deuteronomy 26:6

• First Fruits
• Patriotism

In the dictionaries

• Heaven
• Meatoffering
• Ready
• Tithe
• Atonement, Day of
• Criticism
• Exodus, the Book of
• First-Fruits
• Genesis
• Hard; Hardiness; Harddiness; Hardly

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 26

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings