Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageI lifted the crushing load from their shoulders; their hands were freed from the slave's basket.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GI lifted the burden from their shoulder; their hands were freed from the brick-basket.
KJV
King James VersionI removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
BSB
Berean Standard Bible“I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.
Footnotes
*Sevel* (סֵבֶל) is the precise word for the backbreaking load of forced labour — the same word used in Ex. 1:11 and 2:11 for Israel's Egyptian bondage. *Dud* (דּוּד) is a large clay pot or wicker basket used for carrying building materials in brick-making — a viscerally accurate image of slave labour. The divine liberation is pointedly physical before it is theological: the shoulder relieved, the hands unclenched. FOG renders *dud* as "brick-basket" to restore its historical concreteness; FOG Message uses "slave's basket" to make the oppressive reality immediately felt.
