Exodus 5:10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁰ So the taskmasters and the supervisors of the people went out and said to the people, ‘Thus says Pharaoh, “I will not give you straw. ¹¹ Go and get straw yourselves, wherever you can find it; but your work will not be lessened in the least.”’ ¹² So the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw.