9. Make the men’s work so hard that it’s all they can do, and they can’t focus on these empty lies."
10. So the people’s slave masters and supervisors came out and spoke to the people, "This is what Pharaoh says, ‘I’m not giving you straw anymore.
11. Go and get the straw on your own, wherever you can find it. But your work won’t be reduced at all.’"
12. So the people spread out all through the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
13. The slave masters drove them hard and said, "Make sure you make the same daily quota as when you had the straw."