Exodus 5:10-14

10The slave drivers and foreman went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: I’m no longer giving you straw.

11Get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work load will not be reduced one bit.”

12So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

13The slave drivers kept hurrying them. They said, “Finish the same amount of work each day, just as when you had straw.”

14Pharaoh’s slave drivers had placed Israelite foremen in charge of the people. The slave drivers beat the foremen and said, “You didn’t finish all the bricks you were ordered to make yesterday or today. Why didn’t you make as many as you used to?”