Exodus 5:12 CPDV

¹⁰  And so the overseers of the works and the taskmasters went out and said to the people: 'Thus says Pharaoh: I give you no chaff.

¹¹  Go, and collect it wherever you are able to find it. Neither will anything of your work be diminished.'

¹²  And the people were dispersed through all the land of Egypt, in order to gather straw.

¹³  Likewise, the overseers of the works pressured them, saying: 'Complete your work each day, just as you were accustomed to do before, when straw was given to you.'

¹⁴  And those who were first in the works of the sons of Israel were scourged by Pharaoh's taskmasters, saying: 'Why have you not filled the quota of bricks, neither yesterday, nor today, just as before?'