14 and they made (A)their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they rigorously [a]imposed on them.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 1:14 Lit worked through them

When the (A)righteous [a]increase, the people rejoice,
But when a wicked man rules, people groan.

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  1. Proverbs 29:2 Or become great

Herod Slaughters Babies

16 Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by (A)the magi, he became very enraged, and sent and (B)slew all the male children who were in Bethlehem and all its vicinity, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the magi.

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