Exodus 5:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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

Cross References

1 Corinthians 3:12

If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver,  costly stones,  wood, hay, or straw,

Nahum 1:10

For they will be consumed like entangled thorns, like the drink of a drunkard and like straw that is fully dry.

Obadiah 1:18

Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph, a burning flame, but the house of Esau will be stubble; Jacob  will set them on fire and consume Edom. Therefore no survivor will remain of the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken.

Joel 2:5

They bound on the tops of the mountains. Their sound is like the sound of chariots, like the sound of fiery flames consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for war.

Isaiah 47:14

Look, they are like stubble; fire burns them. They cannot rescue themselves from the power of the flame. This is not a coal for warming themselves, or a fire to sit beside!

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will become like something rotten and their blossoms will blow away like dust, for they have rejected the instruction of the  Lord of Armies, and they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Exodus 15:7

You overthrew your adversaries by your great majesty. You unleashed your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

Exodus 5:11

Go and get straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but there will be no reduction at all in your workload.” ’

Exodus 5:13

The overseers insisted, ‘Finish your assigned work each day, just as you did when straw was provided.’