10 And the officers of the people and their overseers went out, and said to the people, 'Thus says Pharaoh, I do not give you stubble;

11 Go yourselves, and take stubble for yourselves wherever you find, and nothing is diminished from your work.

12 And the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt, gathering stubble instead of stubble.

13 And the stewards urged them, saying, 'Do your work every day, as when you had stubble.'

14 And they smote the overseers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's officers had set over them, saying, 'Why do you not make the number of bricks yesterday and today, as you have hitherto?'

15 And the overseers of the children of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, 'Why do you do this to your servants?'

16 Stubble is not given to thy servants, but bricks, they say to us, make them. And behold, thy servants are beaten; Sin unto thy people.

17 But he said, 'You are idle, you are idle, therefore you say, 'Come, let us offer sacrifice to the Lord.'

18 Go and work; Straw will not be given to you, but give the prescribed number of bricks.

19 And the overseers of the children of Israel saw their trouble in the words, 'Do not diminish the number of bricks, which is prescribed for every day.'

20 And when they went out from Pharaoh, they met Moses and Aaron, who were standing waiting for them,

21 And they said to them, 'May the Lord see and judge you, because you have made us hateful in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have given them a sword in their hands to kill us.'

22 And Moses turned to the Lord, and said, 'Lord! Why hast thou subjected this people to such calamity, [and] why hast thou sent me?

23 for from the time that I came to Pharaoh, and spoke in thy name, he began to deal worse with this people; but to deliver, Thou hast not delivered Thy people.