Exodus 5:8-10

New International Version - UK

⁸ But require them to make the same number of bricks as before; don’t reduce the quota. They are lazy; that is why they are crying out, “Let us go and sacrifice to our God.” ⁹ Make the work harder for the people so that they keep working and pay no attention to lies.’

¹⁰ Then the slave drivers and the overseers went out and said to the people, ‘This is what Pharaoh says: “I will not give you any more straw.