Exodus 5:13 CPDV

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?'

¹⁵  And the first among the sons of Israel came, and they cried out to Pharaoh, saying: 'Why do act against your servants in this way?