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A Conservative Version
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
New American Standard Bible
So the people scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
King James Version
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
Holman Bible
So the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
International Standard Version
So the people scattered throughout the entire land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.
American Standard Version
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
Amplified
So the people were scattered throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble to use for straw.
Bible in Basic English
So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems.
Darby Translation
And the people were scattered abroad throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
Julia Smith Translation
And the people will be dispersed in all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
King James 2000
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the people spread out in all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for the straw.
Modern King James verseion
So the people were scattered through all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then the people scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt for to gather them stubble to be instead of straw.
NET Bible
So the people spread out through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.
New Heart English Bible
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
The Emphasized Bible
So the people dispersed themselves throughout all the land of Egypt, - to gather stubble for straw:
Webster
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble instead of straw.
World English Bible
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
Youngs Literal Translation
And the people is scattered over all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw,
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 5:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Further Oppression Of Israel
11 Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it, for none of your work shall be diminished. 12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. 13 And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfill your works, [your] daily tasks, as when there was straw.
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Cross References
Exodus 15:7
And in the greatness of thine excellency thou overthrow those who rise up against thee. Thou send forth thy wrath, it consumes them as stubble.
Isaiah 5:24
Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of LORD of hosts, an
Isaiah 47:14
Behold, they shall be as stubble. The fire shall burn them. They shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.
Joel 2:5
They leap like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Obadiah 1:18
And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. And they shall burn among them, and devour them, and there shall not be any remaining to the house of Esau, for LORD has sp
Nahum 1:10
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.
1 Corinthians 3:12
And if any man builds upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,