Then the LORD said, "I have seen how cruelly my people are being treated in Egypt; I have heard them cry out to be rescued from their slave drivers. I know all about their sufferings,

Then the foremen went to the king and complained, "Why do you do this to us, Your Majesty?

The LORD said to him, "Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land; they will be slaves there and will be treated cruelly for four hundred years.

how our ancestors went to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated our ancestors and us,

The Egyptians treated us harshly and forced us to work as slaves.

When Moses had grown up, he went out to visit his people, the Hebrews, and he saw how they were forced to do hard labor. He even saw an Egyptian kill a Hebrew, one of Moses' own people.

The king said to Moses and Aaron, "What do you mean by making the people neglect their work? Get those slaves back to work!

You people have become more numerous than the Egyptians. And now you want to stop working!"

figures of doves covered with silver, whose wings glittered with fine gold. (Why did some of you stay among the sheep pens on the day of battle?)

"I took the burdens off your backs; I let you put down your loads of bricks.

They wandered from country to country, from one kingdom to another.

Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt, giving them property in the best of the land near the city of Rameses, as the king had commanded.

Anger is cruel and destructive, but it is nothing compared to jealousy.