Exodus 5:12

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

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.

In Context

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

13And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.

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Cross References

Exodus 15:7When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass.

Isaiah 47:14Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.

Obadiah 1:18And the children of Jacob will be a fire and those of Joseph a flame, and the children of Esau dry stems of grass, burned up by them till all is gone: and there will be no people living in Esau; for the Lord has said it.

1 Corinthians 3:12But on the base a man may put gold, silver, stones of great price, wood, dry grass, cut stems;

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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