OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 12

Exodus 5:12

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

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Exodus 5:9–15

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.’”

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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?”

15

Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?

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