10The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, This is what Pharaoh says: "I will not give you straw.
11Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished."
12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
13The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!"
14The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh`s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, "Why haven`t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?"
15Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants?
16No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, `Make brick!` and, behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people."
