Exodus 5:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, This is what Pharaoh says, I will not give you straw.

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  • Exod 1:11 : 11 Therefore they set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows;
  • Prov 29:12 : 12 If a ruler listens to lies, all his servants are wicked.

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  • Exod 5:11-20
    10 verses
    89%

    11Go, get straw where you can find it: yet nothing of your work shall be diminished.

    12So the people scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.

    13And the taskmasters hastened them, saying, Fulfill your work, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

    14And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and questioned, Why have you not fulfilled your task in making bricks both yesterday and today, as before?

    15Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Why do you deal this way with your servants?

    16There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, Make bricks: and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.

    17But he said, You are idle, you are idle: therefore you say, Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.

    18Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given you, yet you shall deliver the quota of bricks.

    19And the officers of the children of Israel realized they were in trouble when it was said, You shall not diminish anything from your bricks of your daily task.

    20And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way as they came out from Pharaoh:

  • Exod 5:4-9
    6 verses
    87%

    4And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people away from their work? Go back to your burdens.

    5And Pharaoh said, Look, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens.

    6And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying,

    7You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks as before: let them go and gather straw for themselves.

    8And the quota of bricks, which they made before, you shall lay upon them; you shall not diminish anything from it: for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

    9Let more work be laid upon the men, so they may labor in it; and let them not regard lying words.

  • Exod 14:5
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    5And it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?

  • Exod 10:27
    72%

    27But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go.

  • Exod 6:10-11
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    72%

    10And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

    11Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.

  • Exod 1:11
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    11Therefore they set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

  • Exod 10:11
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    11Not so; go now, you who are men, and serve the LORD; for that is what you desired. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

  • Exod 8:20
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    20And the LORD said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he comes forth to the water; and say to him, Thus says the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

  • Exod 9:13
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    13And the LORD said to Moses, Rise early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

  • Exod 9:1-2
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    71%

    1Then the LORD said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

    2For if you refuse to let them go, and continue to hold them,

  • Exod 10:3-4
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    3And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

    4But if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory:

  • Exod 5:1-2
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    1Afterward, Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, This is what the Lord God of Israel says, Let my people go, so they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.

    2And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go.

  • Exod 3:19
    71%

    19And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.

  • Exod 8:1
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    1And the LORD spoke to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus says the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

  • Exod 3:10
    71%

    10Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.

  • Exod 10:6-7
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    6And they shall fill your houses, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, which neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth to this day. And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

    7And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?

  • Exod 9:35
    71%

    35And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken through Moses.

  • Exod 10:20
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    20But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.

  • Exod 7:14
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    14And the LORD said to Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuses to let the people go.

  • Exod 9:17
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    17As yet you exalt yourself against my people, that you will not let them go?

  • Exod 7:16
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    16And you shall say to him, The LORD God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness, and, behold, you have not listened.

  • Exod 8:15
    70%

    15But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and did not listen to them; as the LORD had said.

  • Exod 7:4
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    4But Pharaoh shall not listen to you, so that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth my armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.

  • Exod 9:7
    70%

    7And Pharaoh sent, and behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

  • Exod 11:1
    70%

    1And the LORD said to Moses, I will bring one more plague upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go from here: when he does let you go, he will surely drive you out from here altogether.