9Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words.
10And the overseers of the people and their responsible men went out and said to the people, Pharaoh says, I will give you no more dry stems.
11Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less.
12So the people were sent in all directions through the land of Egypt to get dry grass for stems.
13And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.
14And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in making bricks as before?
15Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh, protesting and saying, Why are you acting in this way to your servants?
