Exodus 1:13-14

13So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel awork as slaves 14and bmade their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.

Exodus 1:16

16“When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”

Exodus 1:22

22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, cEvery son that is born to the Hebrews
Samaritan, Septuagint, Targum; Hebrew lacks  to the Hebrews
you shall cast into ethe Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”

Exodus 2:23-24

God Hears Israel’s Groaning

23 fDuring those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel ggroaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. hTheir cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. 24And iGod heard their groaning, and God jremembered his covenant with kAbraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Exodus 5:16-19

16No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.” 17But he said, “You are idle, you are idle; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’ 18Go now and work. No straw will be given you, but you must still deliver the same number of bricks.” 19The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they said, “You shall by no means reduce your number of bricks, your daily task each day.”

Deuteronomy 28:33

33A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually,

Deuteronomy 28:48

48therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he lwill put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

From Dust to Dust

16Moreover, mI saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even nthere was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

The Vanity of Wealth and Honor

8 oIf you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, pdo not be amazed at the matter, qfor the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

7Surely roppression drives the wise into madness,
and sa bribe corrupts the heart.
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