World English Bible
"So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw."
— Exodus 5:12, World English Bible
“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.”
“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.”
Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let them pay any attention to lying words."
The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, "This is what Pharaoh says: 'I will not give you straw.
Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.'"
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
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 demanded, "Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?"
Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants?