¹¹ Go and get straw yourselves, wherever you can find it, but your work will not be lessened in the least.”

¹³ The taskmasters urged them on, saying, “Complete your work, the same daily assignment as when you were given straw.”^{[a] 14} And the Israelite supervisors whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them were beaten and were asked, “Why did you not finish the required quantity of bricks yesterday and today, as you did before?”^(A)