Exodus 5:11

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Exod 5:13-14 : 13 The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!" 14 The 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?"

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  • Exod 5:4-10
    7 verses
    89%

    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."

    10The 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.

  • Exod 5:12-19
    8 verses
    88%

    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!"

  • Exod 10:11
    72%

    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 6:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    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."

  • Gen 41:55
    70%

    55When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."

  • Exod 3:21
    70%

    21I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.

  • Gen 45:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    19Now you are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

    20Also, don't concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all of the land of Egypt is yours."

  • 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.

  • Exod 1:11
    69%

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

  • Isa 19:15
    69%

    15Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.

  • Exod 9:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    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 10:24
    69%

    24Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, "Go, serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you."

  • Exod 9:17
    69%

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

  • Gen 45:17
    69%

    17Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 41:34
    68%

    34Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt's produce in the seven plenteous years.

  • Exod 14:5
    68%

    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 3:19
    68%

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

  • Exod 10:6
    68%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 6:6
    68%

    6Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn't they let the people go, and they departed?

  • Gen 46:33
    68%

    33It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, 'What is your occupation?'

  • Exod 16:26-27
    2 verses
    68%

    26Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none."

    27It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.

  • Exod 8:20
    68%

    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
    68%

    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 8:28
    68%

    28Pharaoh said, "I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me."

  • Exod 9:8
    68%

    8Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, "Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.