Exodus 5:12

And the people are scattered over all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw,

Literal Standard Version

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

11you—go, take straw for yourselves where you can find [it], for there is nothing diminished of your service.”

13and the exactors are making haste, saying, “Complete your works, the matter of a day in its day, as when there is straw.”

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Cross References

Exodus 15:7And in the abundance of Your excellence || You throw down Your withstanders, || You send forth Your wrath—It consumes them as stubble.

Isaiah 47:14Behold, they have been as stubble! Fire has burned them, || They do not deliver themselves from the power of the flame, || There is not a coal to warm them, a light to sit before it.

Obadiah 1:18And the house of Jacob has been a fire, || And the house of Joseph a flame, || And the house of Esau for stubble, || And they have burned among them, || And they have consumed them, || And there is not a remnant to the house of Esau,” || For YHWH has spoken.

1 Corinthians 3:12and if anyone builds on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, 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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