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. He will put it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God. 5Then you must say this, so that the Lord your God hears you: ‘My ancestor was an Aramean who moved from place to place. He went to Egypt to live there as a foreigner. At that time, his family was small. But while he lived in Egypt, his family became a great nation of many powerful people. But the Egyptian people were cruel to us. They made us work very hard for them. 7So we prayed to the Lord, the God of our ancestors. He heard our prayers. He saw that we were in trouble. He saw that we had to do very hard work for cruel people. 8So the Lord used his great strength and power to bring us out of Egypt. He did powerful miracles which caused the Egyptians to be afraid.

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 you belong to the Lord. He brought you out of Egypt, which was like a hot oven where you had much pain. He rescued you, to be his own special people, as you are today.
• Exodus 1:11So the Egyptians made the Israelites work as their slaves. The Egyptian masters made the Israelites do very hard work. They had to build cities for the king, Pharaoh, where he could store food for his people. The names of the cities were Pithom and Rameses.
• Exodus 5:9Make the work more difficult for them to do. They will have to do very hard work. They will be too busy to listen to the lies of their leaders.’

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