Exodus 5:8-10

Modern English Version

⁸ However, the quota of the bricks, which they were making previously, you shall lay upon them. You shall not diminish any of it. For they are idle. Therefore they cry out, saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’ ⁹ Let there be more work laid upon the men so that they may labor therein, and let them not regard deceptive words.”

¹⁰ The taskmasters of the people and their officers went out, and they spoke to the people, saying, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not give you straw.