Exodus 5:12

So the people scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

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So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.

In Context

11You yourselves must go and get straw wherever you can find it, but your workload will not be reduced.'”

13The taskmasters kept urging them and saying, “Finish your work, just as when straw was given to you.”

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Cross References

Exodus 15:7In great majesty you overthrew those who rose up against you. 1 You sent out your wrath; it consumed them like stubble. 1

Isaiah 47:14See, they will become like stubble. The fire will burn them up. 1 They will not save themselves from the hand of the flame. 1 There are no coals to warm them and no fire for them to sit by! 1

Obadiah 1:18The house of Jacob will be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau will be stubble, and they will burn them, and consume them. There will be no survivors to the house of Esau, for Yahweh has spoken it.”

1 Corinthians 3:12Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, 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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