Exodus 5:12 meaning and explanation
So the people scattered all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
Exodus 5:12, Berean Standard Bible
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Pharaoh has just stopped supplying straw for brickmaking, so verse 12 shows the Israelites scattering across Egypt to gather stubble, the dry stalks left after harvest, as a substitute. The Hebrew word qash means stubble, the leftover field waste.
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