Exodus 5:12
Good News Translation
So the people went all over Egypt looking for straw.

New Revised Standard Version
So the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw.

Contemporary English Version
The slaves went all over Egypt, looking for straw.

New American Bible
The people, then, scattered throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the people was scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather straw.

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And the people was scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather straw.

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Context
Bricks and Straw
11Go, and gather it where you can find it; neither shall any thing of your work be diminished. 12And the people was scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather straw.13And the overseers of the works pressed them, saying: Fulfil your work every day, as before ye were wont to do, when straw was given you.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 3:12
Now, if any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble:

Exodus 5:11
Go, and gather it where you can find it; neither shall any thing of your work be diminished.

Exodus 5:13
And the overseers of the works pressed them, saying: Fulfil your work every day, as before ye were wont to do, when straw was given you.

Exodus 5:11
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