Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

“你父亲使我们负重轭做苦工，现在求你使我们做的苦工负的重轭轻松些，我们就侍奉你。”

“你父亲使我们负重轭，现在求你减轻你父亲所加给我们的苦工和重轭，我们就服事你。”

“你父亲使我们负重轭，现在求你减轻你父亲所加给我们的苦工和重轭，我们就服事你。”

“你父亲使我们负担沉重，求你减轻我们的负担吧，我们一定效忠你。”

“你父亲使我们所负的轭甚重，现在求你减轻你父亲加在我们身上的劳役和重轭，我们就服事你。”

「你父親使我們負重軛做苦工，現在求你使我們做的苦工負的重軛輕鬆些，我們就事奉你。」

「你父親使我們負重軛，現在求你減輕你父親所加給我們的苦工和重軛，我們就服事你。」

「你父親使我們負重軛，現在求你減輕你父親所加給我們的苦工和重軛，我們就服事你。」

「你父親使我們負擔沉重，求你減輕我們的負擔吧，我們一定效忠你。」

“你父親使我們所負的軛甚重，現在求你減輕你父親加在我們身上的勞役和重軛，我們就服事你。”

『你父親使我們的軛很難負；你呢，現在你使你父親那令人很難作的苦工、和他所加在我們身上的重軛、輕鬆些吧，我們就服事你。』

爾父使我儕負軛艱苦、爾其輕爾父之重軛、與艱苦之役事、我則服事爾、

爾父使我負重軛、操作維艱、爾其輕我、我則役事爾。

爾父使我負重軛、服役艱苦、今爾輕之、我則役事爾、

“ Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”

“ Your father put a heavy load on our shoulders. But now make our hard work easier. Make the heavy load on us lighter. Then we’ll serve you.”

“ Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you.”

“ Your father was a hard master,” they said.“ Lighten the harsh labor demands and heavy taxes that your father imposed on us. Then we will be your loyal subjects.”

“ Your father made our yoke harsh. Therefore, lighten your father’s harsh service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”

“ Your father made our yoke hard; but now, lighten the hard labor imposed by your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.”

“ Your father made our yoke heavy; now therefore, lighten the burdensome service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.”

“ Your father made our yoke difficult. Therefore, lighten your father’s harsh service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”

Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.

“ Your father made us work too hard! Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.”

“ Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”

And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;

Yea, they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger.

And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor:and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor.

I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them unto him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;and he will appoint them unto him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will set some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.And he will take your men- servants, and your maid- servants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.He will take the tenth of your flocks: and ye shall be his servants.And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye shall have chosen you; and Jehovah will not answer you in that day.

Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig- tree, from Dan even to Beer- sheba, all the days of Solomon.