The taskmasters were urgent, saying, “Complete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw.”
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.
The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen,
So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past?”
Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.’”
And they kept the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the rule, as each day required,
He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver.