And the slave-drivers were hurrying them on, saying, “Fulfill your actions, your daily matters, as when there was straw.”
And they performed the Festival of Sukkot, as it is written, and the daily ascending offerings by number, according to the right-ruling for each day,
He laughs at the commotion of the city; he does not hear the shouts of the driver.
So they set slave-masters over them to afflict them with their burdens, and they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Ra‛amses.
‘Go, take straw for yourselves, where ever you find it, for your work shall not be diminished.’ ”
And the people were scattered in all the land of Mitsrayim – to gather stubble for straw.
Also the foremen of the children of Yisra’ĕl, whom Pharaoh’s slave-drivers had set over them, were struck and were asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your law in making bricks both yesterday and today, as before?”
And the same day Pharaoh commanded the slave-drivers of the people and their foremen, saying,