World English Bible
Exodus 5:10
“The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, "This is what Pharaoh says: 'I will not give you straw.”
Verse in context — Exodus 5
The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let them pay any attention to lying words.
The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, "This is what Pharaoh says: 'I will not give you straw.
Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
About Exodus
God delivers Israel from Egypt, gives the Ten Commandments, and establishes His covenant with His people.
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