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English Standard Version

Exodus 5:11

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Brick;   Cruelty;   Servant;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Egypt;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Pharaoh;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Aaron;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Straw;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Pottery;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Service;   Straw;   Taskmaster;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Brick;   Exodus;   Pharaoh;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bricks;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Brick;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Exodus, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Brick;   Nought;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished."
King James Version
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
Lexham English Bible
You go, get straw for yourselves from whatever you find because not a thing is being reduced from your work.'"
New Century Version
Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it. But you must make as many bricks as you made before."
New English Translation
You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.'"
Amplified Bible
'Go, get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work [quota] will not be reduced in the least.'"
New American Standard Bible
'You go, get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it; but none of your labor will be reduced.'"
Geneva Bible (1587)
Goe your selues, get you strawe where yee can finde it, yet shall nothing of your labour bee diminished.
Legacy Standard Bible
You go and get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, but no amount of your slave labor will be reduced.'"
Contemporary English Version
Go and find your own straw wherever you can, but you must still make as many bricks as before."
Complete Jewish Bible
You go, yourselves, and get straw wherever you can find it. But your output is not to be reduced.'"
Darby Translation
go ye, get yourselves straw where ye may find it; but none of your work shall be diminished.
Easy-to-Read Version
You must go and get the straw for yourselves. So go and find straw, but you must still make as many bricks as you made before."
George Lamsa Translation
Go, get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it; but your work shall not be reduced.
Good News Translation
He says that you must go and get it for yourselves wherever you can find it, but you must still make the same number of bricks."
Christian Standard Bible®
Go get straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”
Literal Translation
You go take straw for yourselves from wherever you may find it. For not a thing will be reduced from your work.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
go youre waye youre selues, and get you strawe, where ye can fynde it. But of youre labor there shall nothinge be mynished.
American Standard Version
Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it; for nought of your work shall be diminished.
Bible in Basic English
Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Go your selues and gather you straw where ye can finde it: yet shall none of your labour be minished.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it; for nought of your work shall be diminished.'
King James Version (1611)
Goe ye, get you straw where you can find it: yet not ought of your worke shall be diminished.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Go ye, yourselves, get for yourselves straw whencesoever ye can find it, for nothing is diminished from your rate.
English Revised Version
Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it: for nought of your work shall be diminished.
Berean Standard Bible
Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.'"
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
go ye, and gadere, if ye moun fynde ony where; nether ony thing schal be decreessid of youre werk.
Young's Literal Translation
ye -- go ye, take for yourselves straw where ye find [it], for there is nothing of your service diminished.'
Update Bible Version
Go yourselves, you get straw where you can find it: for nothing of your work shall be diminished.
Webster's Bible Translation
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not aught of your work shall be diminished.
World English Bible
Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished."
New King James Version
Go, get yourselves straw where you can find it; yet none of your work will be reduced."'
New Living Translation
Go and get it yourselves. Find it wherever you can. But you must produce just as many bricks as before!"
New Life Bible
You go and get straw for yourselves where you can find it. But you will not work any less than before.'"
New Revised Standard
Go and get straw yourselves, wherever you can find it; but your work will not be lessened in the least.'"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ye yourselves go fetch you straw, of any ye can find, - yet hath there not been diminished from your service a single thing.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Go, and gather it where you can find it; neither shall any thing of your work be diminished.
Revised Standard Version
Go yourselves, get your straw wherever you can find it; but your work will not be lessened in the least.'"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'You go and get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, but none of your labor will be reduced.'"

Contextual Overview

10 So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, "Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not give you straw. 11 Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.'" 12 So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. 13 The taskmasters were urgent, saying, "Complete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw." 14 And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, "Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

not ought: Exodus 5:13, Exodus 5:14

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Go ye, get ye straw, where you can find it,.... Before it was provided by the king, and brought to the brickkilns, but now they are bid to go and fetch it themselves, and get it where they could, whether in fields or barns; and if they were obliged to pay for it out of their labour; it was a greater oppression still:

yet not ought of your work shall be diminished; they were to do the same work, and make the same number of bricks, as when straw was brought and given them; and no allowance made for waste of time in seeking, or expenses in procuring straw, which was very hard upon them.


 
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