Exodus 5:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So the taskmasters and the supervisors of the people went out and said to the people, “Thus says Pharaoh: I will not give you straw.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they said to the people, Thus says Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.

American Standard Version (1901)

And 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.

Common English Bible

So the people’s slave masters and supervisors came out and spoke to the people, “This is what Pharaoh says, ‘I’m not giving you straw anymore.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And so the overseers of the works and the taskmasters went out and said to the people: "Thus says Pharaoh: I give you no chaff.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Exodus 5:10 Cross References

Exodus 1:11

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh.

Exodus 3:7

Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings,

Exodus 5:11

Go and get straw yourselves, wherever you can find it, but your work will not be lessened in the least.”

Exodus 5:6

That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, as well as their supervisors,

Exodus 5:9

Let heavier work be laid on them; then they will pay attention to it and not to deceptive words.”

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked.

Isaiah 30:6

An oracle concerning the animals of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and distress, of lioness and roaring lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels to a people that cannot profit them.