12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.


In Context

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.

13 The taskmasters were urgent saying, |Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!|

14 The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, |Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?|

Exodus 5:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:12So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble to use for straw.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:12And the people was scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather straw.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12And the people were scattered abroad throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble instead of straw.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12And the people is scattered over all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.