Exodus 5:10

And the overseers of the people and their responsible men went out and said to the people, Pharaoh says, I will give you no more dry stems.

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In The King James Version

And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.

In Context

9Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words.

11Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less.

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Cross References

Exodus 1:11So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.

Proverbs 29:12If a ruler gives attention to false words, all his servants are evil-doers.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 5:4-10

3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword. 4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens. 5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens. 6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the… Read the whole commentary →

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