Exodus 5:12-14

American Standard Version

¹² So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. ¹³ And the taskmasters were urgent, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw. ¹⁴ And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, ^[a]and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task both yesterday and to-day, in making brick as heretofore?