Exodus 5:10

God's Word

The slave drivers and foreman went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: I’m no longer giving you straw.

Cross References

Exodus 1:11

So the Egyptians put slave drivers in charge of them in order to oppress them through forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities for Pharaoh.

Exodus 3:7

The Lord said, “I have seen the misery of my people in Egypt, and I have heard them crying out because of the slave drivers. I know how much they’re suffering.

Exodus 5:11

Get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work load will not be reduced one bit.”

Exodus 5:6

That same day Pharaoh gave these orders to the slave drivers and foremen:

Exodus 5:9

Make the work harder for these people so that they will be too busy to listen to lies.”

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler pays attention to lies, all his servants become wicked.

Isaiah 30:6

This is the divine revelation about the animals in the Negev. “My people travel through lands where they experience distress and hardship. Lions and lionesses live there. Vipers and poisonous snakes live there. They carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels to a nation that can’t help them.