Exodus 5:10

New International Reader's Version

The slave drivers and the overseers left. They said to the people, “Pharaoh says, ‘I won’t give you any more straw.

Cross References

Exodus 1:11

So the Egyptians put slave drivers over the people of Israel. The slave drivers treated them badly and made them work hard. The Israelites built the cities of Pithom and Rameses so Pharaoh could store things there.

Exodus 3:7

The Lord said, “I have seen how my people are suffering in Egypt. I have heard them cry out because of their slave drivers. I am concerned about their suffering.

Exodus 5:11

Go and get your own straw anywhere you can find it. But you still have to make the same number of bricks.’ ”

Exodus 5:6

That same day Pharaoh gave orders to the slave drivers and the overseers in charge of the people.

Exodus 5:9

Make them work harder. Then they will be too busy to pay attention to lies.”

Proverbs 29:12

If rulers listen to lies, all their officials become evil.

Isaiah 30:6

Here is a prophecy the Lord gave me about the animals in the Negev Desert. Judah’s messengers carry their riches on the backs of donkeys. They carry their treasures on the humps of camels. They travel through a land of danger and suffering. It’s a land filled with lions. Poisonous snakes are also there. The messengers travel to a nation that can’t do them any good.