Exodus 5:6-14 ▼

6 And Pharao comaunded the same day, ye taskmaisters which were amongest the people and the officers, saying:

7 Ye shall geue the people no more strawe to make brycke withal, as ye did in tyme passed: let them go and gather them strawe them selues.

8 And the number of bricke which they were wont to make in tyme passed, lay vnto their charges also, and minishe nothing therof: for they be idell, and therfore crye, saying: we wyll go, and do sacrifice vnto our God.

9 They must haue more worke layed vpon them, that they may labour therin, and not regarde vayne wordes.

10 Then went the taskemaisters of the people, and the officers out, and tolde the people, saying: Thus sayeth Pharao, I wyll geue you no more strawe.

11 Go your selues and gather you straw where ye can finde it: yet shall none of your labour be minished.

12 And so were the people scattered abrode throughout all ye land of Egypt, for to gather stubble in steade of strawe.

13 And the taskemaisters hasted them forwarde, saying: fulfyll your worke, your dayly taskes in their due tyme, as if you had strawe.

14 And the officers of the children of Israel which Pharaos taskemasters had set ouer them, were beaten. And they sayde vnto them: wherfore haue ye not fulfilled your taske in makyng of brycke both yesterday and to day, as well as in tymes past?