6. And the same day Pharaoh commanded the slave-drivers of the people and their foremen, saying,
7. “You are no longer to give the people straw to make bricks as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
8. “And lay on them the required amount of bricks which they made before, do not diminish it. For they are idle, that is why they cry out, saying, ‘Let us go and slaughter to our Elohim.’
9. “Let more work be laid on the men, so that they labour in it, and not pay attention to words of falsehood.”
10. And the slave-drivers of the people and their foremen went out and spoke to the people, saying, “Thus said Pharaoh, ‘I do not give you straw.
11. ‘Go, take straw for yourselves, wherever you find it, for your work shall not be diminished.’ ”
12. And the people were scattered in all the land of Mitsrayim – to gather stubble for straw.
13. And the slave-drivers were hurrying them on, saying, “Complete your work, your daily amount, as when there was straw.”
14. Also the foremen of the children of Yisra’ĕl, whom Pharaoh’s slave-drivers had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not completed your task in making bricks both yesterday and today, as before?”
15. And the foremen of the children of Yisra’ĕl came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you treat your servants this way?