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."
17But he said, "You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, `Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.`
18Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet shall you deliver the same number of bricks!"
