Exodus 5:10-14 ▼

10 Then the taskmasters of the people and their officials went out and told the people, |This is Pharaoh's response: 'I'll no longer give you any straw.

11 Go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work quotas won't be reduced at all.'|

12 So the people scattered throughout the entire land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.

13 The taskmasters pressured them by saying, |Finish your work—each day's quota —just as when you were given straw.|

14 The Israeli supervisors whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had appointed over them were beaten and told, |Why didn't you, both yesterday and today, fulfill your quota for making bricks as before?|