'Straw' in the Bible

"You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

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.

Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.'"

So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!"

No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, 'Make brick!' and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people."

Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!"