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Exodus 5:12 KJV
Exodus · chapter 5 · verse 12
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.Exodus 5:12 · King James Version
Exodus 5:12 in context
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.
14And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- stubbleqashstrawH7179 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- abroadpûwtsto dash in pieces, literally or figurativelyH6327 →
- gatherqâshashto forage for straw, stubble or woodH7197 →
- EgyptMitsrayimMitsrajimH4714 →
- landʼeretsthe earthH776 →
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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