Exodus 5:11
World English Bible (WEB)
Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”
In context
9 Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”
10 The taskmasters of the people went out with their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you straw.
11 Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”
12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
13 The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
Exodus 5:11 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”
- KJV King James Version
- Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”
- ASV American Standard Version
- Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it: for nought of your work shall be diminished.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- ye — go ye, take for yourselves straw where ye find [it], for there is nothing of your service diminished.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- go ye, get yourselves straw where ye may find it; but none of your work shall be diminished.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not aught of your work shall be diminished.