Exodus 5:10

New English Translation

So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said, “Thus says Pharaoh: ‘I am not giving you straw.

Cross References

Exodus 1:11

So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

Exodus 3:7

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

Exodus 5:11

You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”

Exodus 5:6

That same day Pharaoh commanded the slave masters and foremen who were over the people:

Exodus 5:9

Make the work harder for the men so they will keep at it and pay no attention to lying words!”

Proverbs 29:12

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

Isaiah 30:6

This is a message about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them.