Exodus 5:8-10

Contemporary English Version

⁸ but they must make the same number of bricks as before. They are lazy, or else they would not beg me to let them go and sacrifice to their God. ⁹ Make them work so hard that they won't have time to listen to these lies.

¹⁰ The slave bosses and the men in charge of the slaves went out and told them, “The king says he will not give you any more straw.