Exodus 5:12 - English Standard Version 2016

¹² So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² So the people were scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather the short stubble instead of straw.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

Common English Bible

¹² So the people spread out all through the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And the people were dispersed through all the land of Egypt, in order to gather straw.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And the people was scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather straw.

Exodus 5:12 Tagairtí Cros

Exodus 15:7

In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries; you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble.

Exodus 5:11

Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.’”

Exodus 5:13

The taskmasters were urgent, saying, “Complete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw.”

Isaiah 47:14

Behold, they are like stubble; the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before!

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Joel 2:5

As with the rumbling of chariots, they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a powerful army drawn up for battle.

Obadiah 1:18

The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken.

Nahum 1:10

For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried.

1 Corinthians 3:12

Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—