Exodus 5:10-14 ▼

10 So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said, |Thus says Pharaoh: 'I am not giving you straw.

11 You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.'|

12 So the people spread out through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.

13 The slave masters were pressuring them, saying, |Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!|

14 The Israelite foremen whom Pharaoh's slave masters had set over them were beaten and were asked, |Why did you not complete your requirement for brickmaking as in the past--both yesterday and today?|