Exodus 5:11

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

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In The King James Version

Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.

In Context

10And 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.

12So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems.

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Matthew Henry on Exodus 5:11-15

10 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. 11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished. 12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw. 13 And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw. 14 And the officers of the children of Israel, which… Read the whole commentary →

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