Exodus 5:12 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 5:12

So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt,.... That part of it where they dwelt: to gather stubble instead of straw; straw not being easy to come at, they were obliged to gather stubble that was left in the fields, after the corn was gathered in. Ben Melech observes, that the word signifies small straw, or small sticks of wood, and Kimchi (m), and if so, this must be to burn the bricks with in the furnaces. (m) Sepher Shorash, rad. קשש.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Stubble instead of straw - Rather, for the straw: i. e. to be prepared as straw. This marks the season of the year, namely, early spring, after the barley or wheat harvest, toward the end of April. Their suffering must have been severe: at that season the pestilential sand-wind blows over Egypt some 50 days, hence, its name - Chamsin. (compare Gen 41:6 note).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

So the people were scattered--It was an immense grievance to the laborers individually, but there would be no hindrance from the husbandmen whose fields they entered, as almost all the lands of Egypt were in the possession of the crown (Ge 47:20).

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּ֥פֶץ	vai.Ya.fetz	and it scattered	H6327 →
הָעָ֖ם	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →
בְּכָל־	be.khol	in all	H3605 →
אֶ֣רֶץ	'E.retz	[the] land of	H776 →
מִצְרָ֑יִם	mitz.Ra.yim	Egypt	H4714 →
לְקֹשֵׁ֥שׁ	le.ko.Shesh	to gather	H7197 →
קַ֖שׁ	kash	stubble	H7179 →
לַתֶּֽבֶן׃	la.Te.ven	for the straw	H8401 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H8401latevenfor the straw17×

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Nahum 1:10
For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.
leads to
- Isaiah 5:24
  Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected…
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Malachi 4:1
  “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Micah 7:4
  The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time…
Through
1 Corinthians 3:12
If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,
leads to
- 2 Timothy 4:3
  For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
- 2 Timothy 3:7
  who are always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
- 2 Timothy 2:20
  A large house contains not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay. Some indeed are for honorable use, but others are for common use.
Through
Isaiah 5:24
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected…
leads to
- Isaiah 47:14
  Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Joel 2:5
With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.
leads to
- Revelation 9:9
  They also had thoraxes like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the roar of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.

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