“The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.”
Exodus 3:7
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Connection with God seeing Jacob's hardship
The Hebrew for seen here is raah (H7200), the same verb the angel used in Jacob's dream: "for I have seen all that Laban has done to you" (Genesis 31:12). God saw Jacob's hard years under Laban, and He saw Israel's affliction under Pharaoh, who took away their straw and kept the same quota of bricks (Exodus 5:8).
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The Hebrew word for affliction here also appears when the LORD heard Hagar, a servant girl at a desert spring (Genesis 16:11), when Leah named Reuben (Genesis 29:32), and when Jacob spoke of his nights in the frost with Laban. Each year Israel spoke that word back to God with the firstfruits in their hands.
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