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.


In Context

7 |You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

8 The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'

9 Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let them pay any attention to lying words.|

10 The 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.

11 Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.'|

12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:10Then 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.

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 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.