Exodus 5:12
So the people spread out through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.
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- Exod 15:7 : 7 In the abundance of your majesty you have overthrown those who rise up against you. You sent forth your wrath; it consumed them like stubble.
- Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore, as flaming fire devours straw, and dry grass disintegrates in the flames, so their root will rot, and their flower will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the law of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, they have spurned the commands of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isa 47:14 : 14 Look, they are like straw, which the fire burns up; they cannot rescue themselves from the heat of the flames. There are no coals to warm them, no firelight to enjoy.
- Joel 2:5 : 5 They sound like chariots rumbling over mountain tops, like the crackling of blazing fire consuming stubble, like the noise of a mighty army being drawn up for battle.
- Obad 1:18 : 18 The descendants of Jacob will be a fire, and the descendants of Joseph a flame. The descendants of Esau will be like stubble. They will burn them up and devour them. There will not be a single survivor of the descendants of Esau!” Indeed, the LORD has spoken it.
- Nah 1:10 : 10 Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.
- 1 Cor 3:12 : 12 If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,
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4The king of Egypt said to them,“Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!”
5Pharaoh was thinking,“The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor.”
6That same day Pharaoh commanded the slave masters and foremen who were over the people:
7“You must no longer give straw to the people for making bricks as before. Let them go and collect straw for themselves.
8But you must require of them the same quota of bricks that they were making before. Do not reduce it, for they are slackers. That is why they are crying,‘Let us go sacrifice to our God.’
9Make the work harder for the men so they will keep at it and pay no attention to lying words!”
10So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said,“Thus says Pharaoh:‘I am not giving you straw.
11You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”
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13The slave masters were pressuring them, saying,“Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!”
14The Israelite foremen whom Pharaoh’s slave masters had set over them were beaten and were asked,“Why did you not complete your requirement for brickmaking as in the past– both yesterday and today?”
15The Israelite foremen went and cried out to Pharaoh,“Why are you treating your servants this way?
16No straw is given to your servants, but we are told,‘Make bricks!’ Your servants are even being beaten, but the fault is with your people.”
17But Pharaoh replied,“You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying,‘Let us go sacrifice to the LORD.’”
18So now, get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still produce your quota of bricks!”
19The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told,“You must not reduce the daily quota of your bricks.”
20When they went out from Pharaoh, they encountered Moses and Aaron standing there to meet them,
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11So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
12But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. As a result the Egyptians loathed the Israelites,
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11Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.