Exodus 5:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems.

Cross References

Exodus 15:7

When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass.

Exodus 5:11

Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less.

Exodus 5:13

And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.

Isaiah 47:14

Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.

Isaiah 5:24

For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Joel 2:5

Like the sound of war-carriages they go jumping on the tops of the mountains; like the noise of a flame of fire burning up the grain-stems, like a strong people lined up for the fight.

Obadiah 1:18

And the children of Jacob will be a fire and those of Joseph a flame, and the children of Esau dry stems of grass, burned up by them till all is gone: and there will be no people living in Esau; for the Lord has said it.

Nahum 1:10

For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

1 Corinthians 3:12

But on the base a man may put gold, silver, stones of great price, wood, dry grass, cut stems;