Exodus 5:10-14 ▼

10 The slave drivers and foreman went out and said to them, |This is what Pharaoh says: I'm no longer giving you straw.

11 Get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work load will not be reduced one bit.|

12 So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

13 The slave drivers kept hurrying them. They said, |Finish the same amount of work each day, just as when you had straw.|

14 Pharaoh's slave drivers had placed Israelite foremen in charge of the people. The slave drivers beat the foremen and said, |You didn't finish all the bricks you were ordered to make yesterday or today. Why didn't you make as many as you used to?|