Exodus 5:10-12

Modern English Version

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.