Exodus 5:10 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁰ So the taskmasters and the foremen 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

¹⁰ 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

¹⁰ 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)

¹⁰ 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

¹⁰ 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

¹⁰ 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

¹⁰ 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 afflict them with heavy burdens; and they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Ra-amses.

Exodus 3:7

Then the Lord said, “I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; I know their sufferings,

Exodus 5:11

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

Exodus 5:6

The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen,

Exodus 5:9

Let heavier work be laid upon the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.”

Proverbs 29:12

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

Isaiah 30:6

An oracle on the beasts of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the viper and the flying serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of asses, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them.