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


In Context

7 "You are no longer to supply the people with straw for making bricks; let them go and gather their own straw.

8 But require them to make the same number of bricks as before; don't reduce the quota. They are lazy; that is why they are crying out, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'

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

10 Then the slave drivers and the foremen 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.

Exodus 5:10 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:10And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:10And the overseers of the works and the taskmasters went out and said to the people: Thus saith Pharao, I allow you no straw:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:10And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:10And the taskmasters of the people and their officers went out and spoke to the people, saying, Thus says Pharaoh: I will not give you straw:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:10And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:10And the task-masters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:10The 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:10And the exactors of the people, and its authorities, go out, and speak unto the people, saying, 'Thus said Pharaoh, I do not give you straw,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:10And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, Thus said Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.