Exodus 5:11
9 Make the work harder on the men so they will be occupied and pay no attention to these lies.”
10 So the taskmasters and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I am no longer giving you straw.
Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”
12 So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
13 The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”
- KJV
- Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
- WEB
- Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”
- ASV
- Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it: for nought of your work shall be diminished.
- DARBY
- go ye, get yourselves straw where ye may find it; but none of your work shall be diminished.
- BLB
- You⁺ go, get straw for yourselves from wherever you⁺ can find it; for nothing is diminishing from your⁺ service.’”
- ÅB
- Gå selv og finn dere halm, hvor dere kan; Men i deres arbeid skal det ikke avkortes noe.
- OTB
- Gå og samle halm selv hvor dere kan finne det, men arbeidsmengden deres vil ikke bli redusert i det hele tatt.'»
- B1930
- Gå selv og finn eder halm, hvor I kan; Men i eders arbeid skal det ikke avkortes noget.
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Original text and word study
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Exodus 5:13–14
The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
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