Exodus 5:11
Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”
Majority Standard Bible
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
12So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for 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 →