Exodus 5:13-16 And the taskmasters were urgent, saying, Fulfill your works, every day its due portion, just as when there was straw.

Leeser⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹³ And the taskmasters were urgent, saying, Fulfill your works, every day its due portion, just as when there was straw. ¹⁴ And the officers of the children of Israel, whom the taskmasters of Pharaoh had set over them, were beaten, as these said, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick as heretofore, both yesterday and today? ¹⁵ And the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? ¹⁶ Straw is not given unto thy servants, and, Make bricks, say they to us: and, behold, thy servants are beaten, and thy people are treated as sinners.