10. The taskmasters of the people and their officers went out, and they spoke to the people, saying, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not give you straw.
11. Go, get straw where you can find it, yet nothing of your work shall be diminished.’ ”
12. So the people scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
13. The taskmasters pushed them, saying, “Fulfill your works, your daily tasks, just as when there was straw.”