Exodus 5:11

11 Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced at all.’ ”

Exodus 5:11 in Other Translations

11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.

11 Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.'"

11 Go and get it yourselves. Find it wherever you can. But you must produce just as many bricks as before!”

11 Get your own straw wherever you can find it. And not one brick less in your daily work quota!"

11 Go get straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but there will be no reduction at all in your workload.' "

Exodus 5:11 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 5:11

Go ye, get ye straw, where you can find it
Before it was provided by the king, and brought to the brickkilns, but now they are bid to go and fetch it themselves, and get it where they could, whether in fields or barns; and if they were obliged to pay for it out of their labour; it was a greater oppression still:

yet not ought of your work shall be diminished;
they were to do the same work, and make the same number of bricks, as when straw was brought and given them; and no allowance made for waste of time in seeking, or expenses in procuring straw, which was very hard upon them.

Exodus 5:11 In-Context

9 Make the work harder for the people so that they keep working and pay no attention to lies.”

10 Then the slave drivers and the overseers went out and said to the people, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you any more straw.

11 Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced at all.’ ”

12 So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble to use for straw.

13 The slave drivers kept pressing them, saying, “Complete the work required of you for each day, just as when you had straw.”

Cross References

• 1. ver 19