Exodus 5:12

So the people were dispersed in all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 ye, yourselves, get for yourselves straw whencesoever ye can find it, for nothing is diminished from your rate.

13And the taskmasters hastened them, saying, Fulfill your regular daily tasks, even as when straw was given you.

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Cross References

Exodus 15:7And in the abundance of thy glory thou hast broken the adversaries to pieces: 1 Thou sentest forth thy wrath, it devoured them as stubble. 1

Isaiah 47:14Behold, they all shall be burned up as sticks in the fire; neither shall they at all deliver their life from the flame. Because thou hast coals of fire, sit thou upon them;

Obadiah 1:18And the house of Jacob shall be fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau shall be for stubble; and Israel shall flame forth against them, and shall devour them, and there shall not be a cornfield left to the house of Esau; because the Lord has spoken.

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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