11. Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced at all.’ ”
12. So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble to use for straw.
13. The slave drivers kept pressing them, saying, “Complete the work required of you for each day, just as when you had straw.”
14. And 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?”
15. Then the Israelite overseers went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why have you treated your servants this way?