Exodus 5:11

11 Go and get the straw on your own, wherever you can find it. But your work won't be reduced at all.'"

Exodus 5:11 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 5:11

Go ye, get ye straw, where you can find it
Before it was provided by the king, and brought to the brickkilns, but now they are bid to go and fetch it themselves, and get it where they could, whether in fields or barns; and if they were obliged to pay for it out of their labour; it was a greater oppression still:

yet not ought of your work shall be diminished;
they were to do the same work, and make the same number of bricks, as when straw was brought and given them; and no allowance made for waste of time in seeking, or expenses in procuring straw, which was very hard upon them.

Exodus 5:11 In-Context

9 Make the men's work so hard that it's all they can do, and they can't focus on these empty lies."

10 So the people's slave masters and supervisors came out and spoke to the people, "This is what Pharaoh says, ‘I'm not giving you straw anymore.

11 Go and get the straw on your own, wherever you can find it. But your work won't be reduced at all.'"

12 So the people spread out all through the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

13 The slave masters drove them hard and said, "Make sure you make the same daily quota as when you had the straw."