10 And the taskmasters of the people and their officers went out and spoke to the people, saying, “Thus says Pharaoh: ‘I will not give you straw.

11 Go, get yourselves straw where you can find it; yet none of your work will be reduced.’ ”

13 And the taskmasters forced them to hurry, saying, “Fulfill your work, your daily quota, as when there was straw.”

14 Also the ^aofficers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were ^bbeaten and were asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and today, as before?”  ‡