Exodus 5:12
And the people was scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather straw.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dispersusque est populus per omnem terram Ægypti ad colligendas paleas.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ διεσπάρη ὁ λαὸς ἐν ὅλῃ γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ συναγαγεῖν καλάμην εἰς ἄχυρα·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיָּ֥פֶץ הָעָ֖ם בְּכָל אֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם לְקֹשֵׁ֥שׁ קַ֖שׁ לַתֶּֽבֶן
Haydock's commentary
Straw. While some continued at the works, (Menochius) others went about the fields to gather up every grain of chaff and piece of straw which they could find.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.