Exodus 5:6-8

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁶ Therefore he commanded the same day the overseers of the works, and the taskmasters of the people, saying:

⁷ You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before: but let them go and gather straw.

⁸ And you shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which they did before, neither shall you diminish any thing thereof: for they are idle, and therefore they cry, saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.