Exodus 5:12
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
Exodus 5:12 in other translations
| BSB | So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. |
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| WEB | So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. |
| ASV | So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. |
| YLT | And the people is scattered over all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw, |
| DARBY | And the people were scattered abroad throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. |
| BBE | So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems. |
| Webster | So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble instead of straw. |
What does Exodus 5:12 mean?
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 5:10-23
The Egyptian task-masters were very severe. See what need we have to pray that we may be delivered from wicked men. The head-workmen justly complained to Pharaoh: but he taunted them. The malice of Satan has often represented the service and worship of God, as fit employment only for those who have nothing else to do, and the business only of the idle; whereas, it is the duty of those who are most busy in the world…
Exodus 5:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Exodus 5:12
- Obadiah 1:18
And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the Lord hath spoken it.
- Nahum 1:10
For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
- Exodus 15:7
And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
- 1 Corinthians 3:12
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
- Joel 2:5
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
- Isaiah 5:24
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 47:14
Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
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Context
- Exodus 5:11
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
- Exodus 5:12
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
- Exodus 5:13
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
Exodus 5:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Entonces el pueblo se derramó por toda la tierra de Egipto á coger rastrojo en lugar de paja. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et le peuple se dispersa dans tout le pays d’Égypte pour ramasser du chaume en lieu de paille. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und das Volk zerstreute sich im ganzen Lande Ägypten, um Stoppeln zu sammeln zu Stroh. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Dispersusque est populus per omnem terram Ægypti ad colligendas paleas. |