Exodus 5:12
So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
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Context
10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus says Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
13 And the taskmasters hasted , saying, Fulfil your works, daily tasks, as when there was straw.
14 And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, demanded, therefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?