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Exodus 5:10

American Standard Version

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.

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Exodus 5:10 in other translations

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.

Exodus 5:10 · World English Bible

Exodus 5:10 in context

  1. 8And the number of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish aught thereof: for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
  2. 9Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labor therein; and let them not regard lying words.
  3. 10And 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.
  4. 11Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it: for nought of your work shall be diminished.
  5. 12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.