10. The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they said to the people, Thus says Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
11. Go, get straw where you can find it; but your work shall not be diminished in the least.
12. So the people were scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather the short stubble instead of straw.
13. And the taskmasters were urgent, saying, Finish your work, your daily quotas, as when there was straw.
14. And the Hebrew foremen, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, Why have you not fulfilled all your quota of making bricks yesterday and today, as before?
15. Then the Hebrew foremen came to Pharaoh and cried, Why do you deal like this with your servants?
16. No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, Make bricks! And behold, your servants are beaten, but the fault is in your own people.