Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 5:11
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not aught of your work shall be diminished.
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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
11. Get you straw For the sun-baked bricks, which were made of Nile mud mixed with cut straw, as is seen in specimens still preserved . Similar oppression and a like unreasonable exaction are on record in an Egyptian papyrus of the nineteenth dynasty, wherein the writer complains, “I have no one to help me in making bricks, no straw . ”
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
That is a suitable prayer for souls so exercised, 2Th 3:2 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Exo 5:11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
Ver. 11. Yet not aught. ] Such hard service puts Satan his slaves to, and yet they rejoice in their bondage.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
not ought: Exo 5:13, Exo 5:14
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Stubble was the part of the corn or grain stalk that remained standing after field hands had harvested a crop (Exo 5:12). This the Israelites chopped up and mixed with the clay to strengthen their bricks.
"In Exo 2:23 the cry of the people went up before God. By contrast, here in Exo 5:15 the cry of the people is before Pharaoh. It is as if the author wants to show that Pharaoh was standing in God’s way and thus provides another motivation for the plagues which follow." [Note: Sailhamer, The Pentateuch . . ., p. 250.]
"This Pharaoh, so unreasonable with men and so stingy with straw, is about to be shown up before Yahweh as no more than a man of straw." [Note: Durham, p. 66.]
The Israelites turned on Moses just as the Israelites in Jesus’ day turned against their Savior.
"The Lord God brought a vine out of Egypt, but during the four hundred years of its sojourn there, it had undeniably become inveterately degenerate and wild." [Note: Meyer, p. 18.]