Exodus 5:12
World English Bible (WEB)
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
In context
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!”
14 The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why haven’t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?”
Exodus 5:12 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
- KJV King James Version
- So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
- ASV American Standard Version
- So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And the people is scattered over all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw,
- DBY Darby Translation
- And the people were scattered abroad throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
- WBS Webster Bible
- So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble instead of straw.