11. He says that you must go and get it for yourselves wherever you can find it, but you must still make the same number of bricks.”
12. So the people went all over Egypt looking for straw.
13. The slave-drivers kept trying to force them to make the same number of bricks every day as they had made when they were given straw.
14. The Egyptian slave-drivers beat the Israelite foremen, whom they had put in charge of the work. They demanded, “Why aren't you people making the same number of bricks as you made before?”