Exodus 5:12

New American Bible - revised edition

The people, then, scattered throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw,

Cross References

Exodus 15:7

In your great majesty you overthrew your adversaries; you loosed your wrath to consume them like stubble.

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 5:13

while the taskmasters kept driving them on, saying, “Finish your work, the same daily amount as when the straw was supplied to you.”

Isaiah 47:14

See, they are like stubble, fire consumes them; They cannot deliver themselves from the spreading flames. This is no warming ember, no fire to sit before!

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as the tongue of fire licks up stubble, as dry grass shrivels in the flame, Their root shall rot and their blossom scatter like dust; For they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of hosts, and scorned the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Joel 2:5

Like the rumble of chariots they hurtle across mountaintops; Like the crackling of fiery flames devouring stubble; Like a massive army in battle formation.

Obadiah 1:18

The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble. They will set it ablaze and devour it; none will survive of the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken.

Nahum 1:10

Like a thorny thicket, they are tangled, and like drunkards, they are drunk; like dry stubble, they are utterly consumed.

1 Corinthians 3:12

If anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,