Exodus 5:10-14

10Then the slave drivers and the overseers went out and said to the people, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you any more straw.

11Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced at all.’ ”

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

13The slave drivers kept pressing them, saying, “Complete the work required of you for each day, just as when you had straw.”

14And Pharaoh’s slave drivers beat the Israelite overseers they had appointed, demanding, “Why haven’t you met your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as before?”