Exodus 5:10

Modern English Version

The taskmasters of the people and their officers went out, and they spoke to the people, saying, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not give you straw.

Cross References

Exodus 1:11

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their labor. They built for Pharaoh storage cities: Pithom and Rameses.

Exodus 3:7

The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Exodus 5:11

Go, get straw where you can find it, yet nothing of your work shall be diminished.’ ”

Exodus 5:6

Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying,

Exodus 5:9

Let there be more work laid upon the men so that they may labor therein, and let them not regard deceptive words.”

Proverbs 29:12

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

Isaiah 30:6

The burden of the beasts of the Negev. Through a land of trouble and anguish, from which comes the lioness and lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people who shall not profit them.