Exodus 5:12-14

Modern English Version

¹² So the people scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. ¹³ The taskmasters pushed them, saying, “Fulfill your works, your daily tasks, just as when there was straw.” ¹⁴ The officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, and demanded, “Why have you not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and today, as previously?”