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Read›Exodus›Chapter 5

Bricks and Straw

Exodus 5:11

In 11 translations

BSB
Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”
KJV
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
WEB
Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”
ASV
Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it: for nought of your work shall be diminished.
LSV
you—go, take straw for yourselves where you can find [it], for there is nothing diminished of your service.”
YLT
ye — go ye, take for yourselves straw where ye find [it], for there is nothing of your service diminished.'
DBY
go ye, get yourselves straw where ye may find it; but none of your work shall be diminished.
DRC
Go, and gather it where you can find it: neither shall any thing of your work be diminished.
GNV
Goe your selues, get you strawe where yee can finde it, yet shall nothing of your labour bee diminished.
JPS
Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it; for nought of your work shall be diminished.'
LXXE
Go ye, yourselves, get for yourselves straw whencesoever ye can find it, for nothing is diminished from your rate.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
אַתֶּ֗ם לְכ֨וּ קְח֤וּ לָכֶם֙ תֶּ֔בֶן מֵאֲשֶׁ֖ר תִּמְצָ֑אוּ כִּ֣י אֵ֥ין נִגְרָ֛ע מֵעֲבֹדַתְכֶ֖ם דָּבָֽר׃
LXX-Br
Αὐτοὶ ὑμεῖς πορευόμενοι συλλέγετε ἑαυτοῖς ἄχυρα, ὅθεν ἐὰν εὕρητε· οὐ γὰρ ἀφαιρεῖται ἀπὸ τῆς συντάξεως ὑμῶν οὐθέν.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Exodus 5:13–14The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.” Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over the people, were beaten and asked,…

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