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Exodus 5:12

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

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  • WEB World English Bible

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

  • KJV King James Version

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

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

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

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Cross-references (7)

Passages linked to Exodus 5:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Exodus 15:7 In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
  • Isaiah 5:24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isaiah 47:14 Behold, they are like stubble. The fire will burn them. They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It won’t be a coal to warm at or a fire to sit by.
  • Joel 2:5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array.
  • Obadiah 1:18 The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.
  • Nahum 1:10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
  • 1 Corinthians 3:12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble,

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Explain this verse (11 sources)

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 5:12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout…

Exo 5:12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.

Ver. 12. So the people were scattered.] So are most people now-a-days busied about trash and trifles, neglecting the one thing necessary. In the enthronisation of the Pope before he puts on his triple crown, a wad of straw is set on fire before him, and one appointed to say, Sic transit gloria round, the glory of this world is but a blaze of straw or stubble, soon extinct. They that highly esteem it rejoice in a thing of nought, feed upon ashes, &c. {Amo 6:13}

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain All the land of Egypt, i.e. all that part…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Stubble instead of straw - Rather, for the straw:…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Straw. While some continued at the works, (Menochius) others…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain So the people were scattered--It was an immense grievance…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 12. To gather stubble instead of straw — Literally,…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 12. to gather stubble] which might be difficult to…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (12) Stubble instead of straw.—Heb., stubble for the straw.…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The people were mattered abroad throughout all the land…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 throughout all the land of Egypt

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