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Exodus 5:11

Exodus 5:11 is verse 11 of Exodus chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”

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King James Version

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

World English Bible

Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”

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Exodus 5:9–13 · Berean Standard Bible

9 Make the work harder on the men so they will be occupied and pay no attention to these lies.”

10 So the taskmasters and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I am no longer giving you straw.

11 Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”

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

13 The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

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Exodus 5:13

The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

Exodus 5:14

Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over the people, were beaten and asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before?”

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