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Exodus 5:12

Egypt

10 And 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.

11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.

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

13 And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

14 And 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?

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BSB
So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
KJV
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
WEB
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
ASV
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
DARBY
And the people were scattered abroad throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
BLB
And the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
ÅB
Da spredte folket seg over hele Egypt for å sanke stubber til å bruke istedenfor halm.
OTB
Dermed spredte folket seg over hele Egypt for å samle halmstrå.
B1930
Da spredte folket sig over hele Egyptens land for å sanke stubber til å bruke istedenfor halm.

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  • Obadiah 1:18

    And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.

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  • Nahum 1:10

    For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

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  • Exodus 15:7

    And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.

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  • 1 Corinthians 3:12

    Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

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  • Joel 2:5

    Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

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  • Isaiah 5:24

    Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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  • Isaiah 47:14

    Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

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