Exodus Chapter 5 verse 11 Holy Bible
Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it: for nought of your work shall be diminished.
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Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less.
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go ye, get yourselves straw where ye may find it; but none of your work shall be diminished.
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Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
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Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not aught of your work shall be diminished.
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Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished."
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ye -- go ye, take for yourselves straw where ye find `it', for there is nothing of your service diminished.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - Get you straw where ye can find it. Straw was not valued in Egypt. Reaping was effected either by gathering the ears, or by cutting the stalks of the corn at a short distance below the heads; and the straw was then left almost entirely upon the ground. Grass was so plentiful that it was not required for fodder, and there was no employment of it as litter in farmyards. Thus abundance of straw could be gathered in the cornfields after harvest; and as there were many harvests, some sort of straw was probably obtainable in the Delta at almost all seasons of the year. To collect it, however, and chop it small, as required in brickmaking, consumed much time, and left too little for the actual making of the bricks.
