Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing 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."
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
You go and get your own straw from wherever you might find it, for there will be no reducing of things from your slavery.’”
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished."
Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”
Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it: for nought of your work shall be diminished.
Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it: for nought of your work shall be diminished.
Goe your selues, get you strawe where yee can finde it, yet shall nothing of your labour bee diminished.
Go, and gather it where you can find it: neither shall any thing of your work be diminished.
ye -- go ye, take for yourselves straw where ye find `it', for there is nothing of your service diminished.'
you—go, take straw for yourselves where you can find [it], for there is nothing diminished of your service.”
You yourselves must go and get straw wherever you can find it, but your workload will not be reduced.'”
You go and get your own straw from wherever you might find it, for there will be no reducing of things from your slavery.’”
go ye, get yourselves straw where ye may find it; but none of your work shall be diminished.
Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not aught of your work shall be diminished.
Go and get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because your work quota won't be reduced.’”
Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less.
Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it; for nought of your work shall be diminished.'
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is תֶּ֔בֶן stubble H8401 — appearing just 17 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
תֶּ֔בֶן stubble H8401 occurs in 16 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 19 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 17 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Topical passages linked to Exodus 5:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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אַתֶּ֗ם לְכ֨וּ קְח֤וּ לָכֶם֙ תֶּ֔בֶן מֵאֲשֶׁ֖ר תִּמְצָ֑אוּ כִּ֣י אֵ֥ין נִגְרָ֛ע מֵעֲבֹדַתְכֶ֖ם דָּבָֽר
Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished."
World English Bible · Public Domain
αὐτός σύ πορεύομαι συνλέγω ἑαυτοῦ ἄχυρον ὅθεν ἐάν εὑρίσκω οὐ γάρ ἀποαἱρέω ἀπό ὁ σύνταξις σύ οὐδείς
Go you⌃, yourselves, get for yourselves straw wherever you⌃ can find it, for nothing is diminished from your rate.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
אַתּוּן אֱזִילוּ סִיבוּ לְכוֹן תִּבְנָא מֵאֲתַר דְתַשְׁכְּחוּן אֲרֵי לָא יִתִּמְנַע מִפָּלְחָנְכוֹן מִדָעַם:
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
אַתּוּן אִיזִילוּ סָבוּ לְכוֹן תִּיבְנָא מִן אָתַר דְתִשְׁכְּחוּן אֲרוּם לָא מִתְמְנַע מִפּוּלְחַנְכוֹן מִדָעַם
you must go and take straw wherever you can find it; for your work will not in anywise be diminished.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 12 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is teben (“stubble”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 5:11 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.