Exodus 5:10

And the overseers of the works and the taskmasters went out and said to the people: Thus saith Pharao, I allow you no straw:

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

9Let them be oppressed, with works, and let them fulfill them: that they may not regard lying words.

11Go, and gather it where you can find it: neither shall any thing of your work be diminished.

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Cross References

Exodus 1:11Therefore he set over them masters of the works, to afflict them with burdens, and they built for Pharao cities of tabernacles, Phithom and Ramesses.

Proverbs 29:12A prince that gladly heareth lying words, hath all his servants wicked.

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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