Bible in Basic English
"So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems."
— Exodus 5:12, Bible in Basic English
“So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.”
“So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. ”
“So the people spread out through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.”
Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words.
And the overseers of the people and their responsible men went out and said to the people, Pharaoh says, I will give you no more dry stems.
Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less.
So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems.
And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.
And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in making bricks as before?
Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh, protesting and saying, Why are you acting in this way to your servants?