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Exodus 5:11

World English Bible

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

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Exodus 5:11 in other translations

Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it: for nought of your work shall be diminished.

Exodus 5:11 · American Standard Version

Exodus 5:11 in context

  1. 9Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”
  2. 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.
  3. 11Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’ ”
  4. 12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
  5. 13The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”