9. Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labor therein; and let them not regard lying words.
10. And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
11. Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it: for nought of your work shall be diminished.
12. So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
13. And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
14. And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task both yesterday and to-day, in making brick as heretofore?
15. Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
16. There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault it in thine own people.
17. But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and sacrifice to Jehovah.
18. Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the number of bricks.