Parallel Verses

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.

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.

A Conservative Version

So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather 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.

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,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
So the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

of Egypt
מצרים 
Mitsrayim 
Usage: 681

to gather
קשׁשׁ 
Qashash 
Usage: 8

קשׁ 
Qash 
Usage: 16

References

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

Further Oppression Of Israel

11 but go yourselves and gather you straw where ye can find it, yet shall none of your labour be minished.'" 12 Then the people scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt for to gather them stubble to be instead of straw. 13 And the taskmasters hasted them forward, saying, "Fulfill your work day by day, even as when straw was given you."

Cross References

Exodus 15:7

And with thy great glory thou hast destroyed thine adversaries! Thou sentest forth thy wrath and it consumed them, even as stubble.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore like as fire licketh up the straw, and as the flame consumeth the stubble: Even so - when their root is full - their blossom shall vanish away like dust or smoke. For they have cast away the law of the LORD of Hosts, and blaspheme the word of the holy maker of Israel.

Isaiah 47:14

Behold, they shall be like straw, which if it be kindled with fire, no man may rid it for the vehemence of the flame: And yet it giveth no cinders to warm a man by, nor clear fire to sit by.

Joel 2:5

They skipped up upon the hills, as it were the sound of chariots; as the flame of fire that consumeth the straw, and as a mighty people ready to the battle.

Obadiah 1:18

Moreover, the house of Jacob shall be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau the straw: which they shall kindle and consume, so that nothing shall be left of the house of Esau, for the LORD himself hath said it.

Nahum 1:10

For like as the thorns that stick together, and as the dry straw, so shall the drunkards be consumed together, even when they be full.

1 Corinthians 3:12

If any man build on this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, timber, hay, or stubble:

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