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Exodus 5:10

World English Bible

The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you straw.

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Exodus 5:10 in other translations

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.

Exodus 5:10 · American Standard Version

Exodus 5:10 in context

  1. 8You shall require from them the number of the bricks which they made before. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, saying, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to our God.’
  2. 9Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”
  3. 10The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you straw.
  4. 11Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’ ”
  5. 12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.