7 "You shall no longer give chaff to the people to form bricks, as before. But they may go and gather straw.
8 And you shall impose upon them the same quota of bricks that they made before. Neither will you lessen anything, for they are idle, and therefore they cry out, saying: 'We shall go and sacrifice to our God.'
9 They shall be oppressed with works, and these shall occupy them, so that they may not agree to lying words."
10 And so the overseers of the works and the taskmasters went out and said to the people: "Thus says Pharaoh: I give you no chaff.
11 Go, and collect it wherever you are able to find it. Neither will anything of your work be diminished."
12 And the people were dispersed through all the land of Egypt, in order to gather straw.
13 Likewise, the overseers of the works pressured them, saying: "Complete your work each day, just as you were accustomed to do before, when straw was given to you."