Exodus 5:10-12

New Catholic Bible

¹⁰ The taskmasters of the people and the overseers went out and spoke to the people: “Pharaoh has ordered, ‘I will not give you straw. ¹¹ You can go and gather it for yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work must not decline.’ ”

¹² The people scattered all throughout Egypt to gather stubble for straw.