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Exodus 5:11 KJV
Exodus · chapter 5 · verse 11
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.Exodus 5:11 · King James Version
Exodus 5:11 in context
9Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
10And 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.
11Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
13And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- strawtebenproperly, materialH8401 →
- oughtdâbâra wordH1697 →
- findmâtsâʼproperly, to come forth toH4672 →
- workʻăbôdâhwork of any kindH5656 →
- getlâqachto takeH3947 →
- Goyâlakto walkH3212 →
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Pharaoh's orders are here put in execution; straw is denied, and yet the work not diminished. 1. The Egyptian task-masters were very severe. Pharaoh having decreed unrighteous decrees, the task-masters were ready to write the grievousness that he had prescribed, Isa 10:1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-14