New Revised Standard Version
he saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant; so he bowed his shoulder to the burden, and became a slave at forced labor.

Contemporary English Version
You found them so pleasant that you worked too hard and became a slave.

New American Bible
When he saw how good a settled life was, and how pleasant the land, He bent his shoulder to the burden and became a toiling serf.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He saw rest that it was good: and the land that it was excellent: and he bowed his shoulder to carry, and became a servant under tribute.

He saw rest that it was good: and the land that it was excellent: and he bowed his shoulder to carry, and became a servant under tribute.

rest.

Joshua 14:15 The name of Hebron before was called Cariath-Arbe: Adam the greatest among the Enacims was laid there and the land rested from wars.

Judges 3:11 And the land rested forty years, and Othoniel, the son of Cenez, died.

2 Samuel 7:1 And it came to pass when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies,

bowed.

Psalm 81:6 He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets.

Ezekiel 29:18 Son of man, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath made his army to undergo hard service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled and there hath been no reward given him, nor his army for Tyre, for the service that he rendered me against it.

Matthew 23:4 For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens and lay them on men's shoulders: but with a finger of their own they will not move them.