Exo 5:11 | NETfull | STEP | You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”

Exodus 5:11

11 You ^{▼▼ The independent personal pronoun emphasizes that the people were to get their own straw, and it heightens the contrast with the king. “You – go get.”} go get straw for yourselves wherever you can ^{▼▼ The tense in this section could be translated as having the nuance of possibility: “wherever you may find it,” or the nuance of potential imperfect: “wherever you are able to find any.”} find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”