Exodus 5:10

New American Bible - revised edition

So the taskmasters of the people and their foremen went out and told the people, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not provide you with straw.

Cross References

Exodus 1:11

Accordingly, they set supervisors over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. Thus they had to build for Pharaoh the garrison cities of Pithom and Raamses.

Exodus 3:7

But the Lord said: I have witnessed the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry against their taskmasters, so I know well what they are suffering.

Exodus 5:11

Go and get your own straw from wherever you can find it. But there will not be the slightest reduction in your work.’”

Exodus 5:6

That very day Pharaoh gave the taskmasters of the people and their foremen this order:

Exodus 5:9

Increase the work for the men, so that they attend to it and not to deceitful words.”

Proverbs 29:12

If rulers listen to lying words, their servants all become wicked.

Isaiah 30:6

Oracle on the Beasts of the Negeb. Through the distressed and troubled land of the lioness and roaring lion, of the viper and flying saraph, They carry their riches on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels To a people good for nothing,