Exodus 5:12

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.

WEB

So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

ASV

So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

LSV

And the people are scattered over all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw,

YLT

And the people is scattered over all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw,

DBY

And the people were scattered abroad throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

DRC

And the people was scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather straw.

GNV

Then were the people scattered abroade throughout all the land of Egypt, for to gather stubble in steade of strawe.

JPS

So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

LXXE

So the people were dispersed in all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וַיָּ֥פֶץ הָעָ֖ם בְּכָל־אֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם לְקֹשֵׁ֥שׁ קַ֖שׁ לַתֶּֽבֶן׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ διεσπάρη ὁ λαὸς ἐν ὅλῃ γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ συναγαγεῖν καλάμην εἰς ἄχυρα.

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• Isaiah 5:24Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of…
• 1 Corinthians 3:12If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,
• Exodus 15:7You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.
• Isaiah 47:14Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.
• Nahum 1:10For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.
• Obadiah 1:18Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph a burning flame; but the house of Esau will be stubble— Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it. Therefore no survivor will remain from the house…
• Joel 2:5With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.

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