6 And the same day Pharaoh commanded the slave-drivers of the people and their foremen, saying,
7 “You are no longer to give the people straw to make bricks as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
8 “And lay on them the required amount of bricks which they made before, do not diminish it. For they are idle, that is why they cry out, saying, ‘Let us go and slaughter to our Elohim.’
9 “Let more work be laid on the men, so that they labour in it, and not pay attention to words of falsehood.”
10 And the slave-drivers of the people and their foremen went out and spoke to the people, saying, “Thus said Pharaoh, ‘I do not give you straw.
11 ‘Go, take straw for yourselves, wherever you find it, for your work shall not be diminished.’ ”
12 And the people were scattered in all the land of Mitsrayim – to gather stubble for straw.