Exodus 5:12

So the people were scattered abroad 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

11Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”

13The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfil your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”

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Cross References

Exodus 15:7In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.

Isaiah 47:14Behold, they are like stubble. The fire will burn them. They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It won’t be a coal to warm at or a fire to sit by.

Obadiah 1:18The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn amongst them and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

1 Corinthians 3:12But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly 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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