Exo 1:11, 2:11, 23:5, Neh 5:1-5, Isa 58:6, Mat 23:4 | ESV | STEP | Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities , Pithom and Raamses .

Exodus 1:11

11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them ^ato afflict them with heavy ^bburdens. They built for Pharaoh ^cstore cities, Pithom and ^dRaamses.

Exodus 2:11

Moses Flees to Midian

11 One day, ^ewhen Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their ^fburdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people. ^{▼▼Hebrew brothers}

Exodus 23:5

5 If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.

Nehemiah 5:1-5

Nehemiah Stops Oppression of the Poor

1 Now there arose ^ha great outcry of the people and of their wives ⁱagainst their Jewish brothers. 2 For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.” 3 There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.” 4 And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for ^jthe king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards. 5 Now ^kour flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet ^lwe are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

Isaiah 58:6

6 “Is not this the fast that I choose:
^mto loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps ⁿof the yoke,
to let the oppressed ^{▼▼Or bruised} go free,
and to break every yoke?

Matthew 23:4

4 ^pThey tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, ^{▼▼Some manuscripts omit hard to bear} and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.