Exodus 5:12 “So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble f…”

Exodus 5:12

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Then were the people scattered abroade throughout all the land of Egypt, for to gather stubble in steade of strawe.

Darby Translation

And the people were scattered abroad throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

Young's Literal Translation

And the people is scattered over all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw,

Bible in Basic English

So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems.

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Cross references

“stubble”

Exodus 15:7 Isaiah 5:24 Isaiah 47:14 Joel 2:5 Nahum 1:10 Obadiah 1:18

Exodus 15:7 · BSB

You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

Isaiah 5:24 · BSB

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Host…

Isaiah 47:14 · BSB

Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.

Joel 2:5 · BSB

With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.

Nahum 1:10 · BSB

For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.

Obadiah 1:18 · BSB

Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph a burning flame; but the house of Esau will be stubble— Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it. Therefore no survivor will remain from the house of…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”

13The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

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