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# made ... work rigorously
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"made ... work very hard" or "harshly made ... work"
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# made their lives bitter
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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/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# mortar
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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
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"The Egyptians made them work very hard" or "The Egyptians forced them to work very hard"
# translationWords
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/life]]