Exodus 5:6-8

GOD’S WORD Translation

Pharaoh Increases the Israelites’ Labor

⁶ That same day Pharaoh gave these orders to the slave drivers and foremen: ⁷ “Don’t give the people any more straw to make bricks as you have been doing. Let them gather their own straw, ⁸ but insist that they make the same number of bricks they were making before. Making fewer bricks will not be acceptable. They’re lazy! That’s why they’re crying, ‘Let us go offer sacrifices to our God.’