Catholic Public Domain Version
"And so the overseers of the works and the taskmasters went out and said to the people: “Thus says Pharaoh: I give you no chaff. "
— Exodus 5:10, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.”
“And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. ”
“The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, "This is what Pharaoh says: 'I will not give you straw.”
“So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said,“Thus says Pharaoh:‘I am not giving you straw.”
“And the overseers of the works, and the taskmasters, went out and said to the people: Thus saith Pharao: I allow you no straw;”
“And the overseers of the people and their responsible men went out and said to the people, Pharaoh says, I will give you no more dry stems.”
“And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.”
“You shall no longer give chaff to the people to form bricks, as before. But they may go and gather straw.
And you shall impose upon them the same quota of bricks that they made before. Neither will you lessen anything, for they are idle, and therefore they cry out, saying: ‘We shall go and sacrifice to our God.’
They shall be oppressed with works, and these shall occupy them, so that they may not agree to lying words.”
And so the overseers of the works and the taskmasters went out and said to the people: “Thus says Pharaoh: I give you no chaff.
Go, and collect it wherever you are able to find it. Neither will anything of your work be diminished.”
And the people were dispersed through all the land of Egypt, in order to gather straw.
Likewise, the overseers of the works pressured them, saying: “Complete your work each day, just as you were accustomed to do before, when straw was given to you.”