Catholic Public Domain Version
"And the people were dispersed through all the land of Egypt, in order to gather straw. "
— Exodus 5:12, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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 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.”
“And the people was scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather straw.”
“So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems.”
“So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.”
They shall be oppressed with works, and these shall occupy them, so that they may not agree to lying words.”
And so the overseers of the works and the taskmasters went out and said to the people: “Thus says Pharaoh: I give you no chaff.
Go, and collect it wherever you are able to find it. Neither will anything of your work be diminished.”
And the people were dispersed through all the land of Egypt, in order to gather straw.
Likewise, the overseers of the works pressured them, saying: “Complete your work each day, just as you were accustomed to do before, when straw was given to you.”
And those who were first in the works of the sons of Israel were scourged by Pharaoh’s taskmasters, saying: “Why have you not filled the quota of bricks, neither yesterday, nor today, just as before?”
And the first among the sons of Israel came, and they cried out to Pharaoh, saying: “Why do act against your servants in this way?