Exodus 5:12

So the people went all over Egypt collecting stubble for straw.

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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 and get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because your work quota won't be reduced.’”

13The slave drivers kept on forcing them, saying, “You still have to do the same work as you did when you had straw provided!”

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Cross References

Exodus 15:7By your majestic power you destroyed those who opposed you. Your anger blazed out and burned them up like stubble.

Isaiah 47:14But look at them! They're like stubble that fire burns up completely—they can't even save their own lives from the flames. This is no fire to sit beside and grow warm!

Obadiah 1:18The descendants of Jacob will become a fire, and the descendants of Joseph a flame, and they shall burn up the descendants of Esau like stubble, consuming them completely, so that there will be not a single survivor of the descendants of Esau. For the Lord has spoken.

1 Corinthians 3:12Those who build on that foundation may use gold, silver, precious stone, wood, hay, or straw—

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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