Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’ ”
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Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’ ”
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Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
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Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it; for nought of your work shall be diminished.'
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Passages linked to Exodus 5:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 5:13-14 The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!” The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why haven’t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 5:11 Go ye, get you straw where ye…
Exo 5:11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
Ver. 11. Yet not aught.] Such hard service puts Satan his slaves to, and yet they rejoice in their bondage.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Go ye, get ye straw, where you can find…
Go ye, get ye straw, where you can find it,.... Before it was provided by the king, and brought to the brickkilns, but now they are bid to go and fetch it themselves, and get it where they could, whether in fields or barns; and if they were obliged to pay for it out of their labour; it was a greater oppression still:
yet not ought of your work shall be diminished; they were to do the same work, and make the same number of bricks, as when straw was brought and given them; and no allowance made for waste of time in seeking, or expenses in procuring straw, which was very hard upon them.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11. Get you straw — For the sun-baked bricks,…
11. Get you straw — For the sun-baked bricks, which were made of Nile mud mixed with cut straw, as is seen in specimens still preserved. Similar oppression and a like unreasonable exaction are on record in an Egyptian papyrus of the nineteenth dynasty, wherein the writer complains, “I have no one to help me in making bricks, no straw.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Get you straw where ye can find it. Straw…
Get you straw where ye can find it. Straw was not valued in Egypt. Reaping was effected either by gathering the ears, or by cutting the stalks of the corn at a short distance below the heads; and the straw was then left almost entirely upon the ground. Grass was so plentiful that it was not required for fodder, and there was no employment of it as litter in farmyards. Thus abundance of straw could be gathered in the cornfields after harvest; and as there were many harvests, some sort of straw was probably obtainable in the Delta at almost all seasons of the year. To collect it, however, and chop it small, as required in brickmaking, consumed much time, and left too little for the actual making of the bricks.
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