Exodus 5:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So the people were scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather the short stubble instead of straw.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

So the people spread out all through the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And the people were dispersed through all the land of Egypt, in order to gather straw.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Exodus 5:12 Cross References

Exodus 15:7

And in the greatness of thine excellency thou overthrowest them that rise up against thee: Thou sendest forth thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble.

Exodus 5:11

Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it: for nought of your work shall be diminished.

Exodus 5:13

And the taskmasters were urgent, saying, Fulfill your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

Isaiah 47:14

Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Joel 2:5

Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

Obadiah 1:18

And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall burn among them, and devour them: and there shall not be any remaining to the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.

Nahum 1:10

For though they be like tangled thorns, told be drenched as it were in their drink, they shall be devoured utterly as dry stubble.

1 Corinthians 3:12

But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble;