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# made their lives bitter

The difficult lives of the Israelites are spoken of as if they were bitter food that was difficult to eat. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])

# mortar

This was a wet glue or mud put between bricks or stones that held them together when it dried.

# All their required work was hard

"The Egyptians made them work very hard" or "The Egyptians forced them to work very hard"
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Change to new format As per email from Chris Jarka. 2019-02-11 22:07:05 +00:00			`The difficult lives of the Israelites are spoken of as if they were bitter food that was difficult to eat. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])`
Remainder of books formated per verse 2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
			`# mortar`

			`This was a wet glue or mud put between bricks or stones that held them together when it dried.`

			`# All their required work was hard`

			`"The Egyptians made them work very hard" or "The Egyptians forced them to work very hard"`