Exodus 5:12-14

New Catholic Bible

¹² The people scattered all throughout Egypt to gather stubble for straw. ¹³ But the taskmasters urged them on saying, “Finish your work, your daily quota, just as when you were given straw.”

¹⁴ Complaint of the Overseers. The overseers of the children of Israel, whom the taskmasters of Pharaoh had placed over them, beat them saying, “Why have you not finished your number of bricks today and yesterday like you did before?”