10. And the overseers of the works and the taskmasters went out and said to the people: Thus saith Pharao, I allow you no straw:
11. Go, and gather it where you can find it: neither shall any thing of your work be diminished.
12. And the people was scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather straw.
13. And the overseers of the works pressed them, saying: Fulfill your work every day as before you were wont to do when straw was given you.
14. And they that were over the works of the children of Israel were scourged by Pharao's taskmasters, saying: Why have you not made up the task of bricks both yesterday and to day as before?
15. And the officers of the children of Israel came, and cried out to Pharao, saying: Why dealest thou so with thy servants?
16. Straw is not given us, and bricks are required of us as before: behold we thy servants are beaten with whips, and thy people is unjustly dealt withal.