Exodus 5:10

Webster's Bible (1833)

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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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 1:11 : 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 Yahweh 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 of his officials are wicked.

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  • Exod 5:11-20
    10 verses
    89%

    11Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished."

    12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

    13The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!"

    14The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, "Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?"

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

    16No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, 'Make brick!' 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 Yahweh.'

    18Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet shall you deliver the same number of bricks!"

    19The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, "You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!"

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

  • Exod 5:4-9
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    87%

    4The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!"

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

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

    7"You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

    8The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'

    9Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let them pay any attention to lying words."

  • Exod 14:5
    73%

    5It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"

  • Exod 10:27
    72%

    27But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he wouldn't let them go.

  • Exod 6:10-11
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    72%

    10Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

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

  • Exod 1:11
    72%

    11Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

  • Exod 10:11
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    11Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!" They were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

  • Exod 8:20
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    20Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes forth to the water; and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh says, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.

  • Exod 9:13
    71%

    13Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they may serve me.

  • Exod 9:1-2
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    71%

    1Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they may serve me.

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

  • Exod 10:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

    4Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,

  • Exod 5:1-2
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    1Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, "This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.'"

    2Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don't know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go."

  • Exod 3:19
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    19I know that the king of Egypt won't give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand.

  • Exod 8:1
    71%

    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, "This is what Yahweh says, 'Let my people go, that they may serve me.

  • Exod 3:10
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    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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    71%

    6Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.'" He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.

    7Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"

  • Exod 9:35
    71%

    35The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn't let the children of Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses.

  • Exod 10:20
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    20But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children of Israel go.

  • Exod 7:14
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    14Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go.

  • Exod 9:17
    70%

    17as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won't let them go.

  • Exod 7:16
    70%

    16You shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness:" and, behold, until now you haven't listened.

  • Exod 8:15
    70%

    15But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn't listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

  • Exod 7:4
    70%

    4But Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring forth my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.

  • Exod 9:7
    70%

    7Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he didn't let the people go.

  • Exod 11:1
    70%

    1Yahweh said to Moses, "Yet one plague more will I bring on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.