Exodus 5:11

Go, and collect it wherever you are able to find it. Neither will anything of your work be diminished.”

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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 so the overseers of the works and the taskmasters went out and said to the people: “Thus says Pharaoh: I give you no chaff.

12And the people were dispersed through all the land of Egypt, in order to gather straw.

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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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