Exodus 5:11

You shall go and gather up straw for yourselves wheresoever you can find it; though from you work there shall be mother diminished.

Targum Onkelos

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

10And the masters of the people and the overseers went forth and spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharoh, I will not give you straw;

12And the people were scattered abroad over all the country of Mizraim to gather stubble for straw.

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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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