Exodus 5:12-14

Lexham English Bible

¹² And the people spread out in all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for the straw. ¹³ And the slave drivers were insisting, saying, “Finish your work for each day^[a] on its day, as when there was straw.”^{[b] 14} And the foremen of the Israelites,^[c] whom Pharaoh’s slave drivers had appointed over them, were beaten by men who were saying, “Why have you not completed your portion of brickmaking as before, both yesterday and today?”^[d]