Exodus 5:6-8

Modern English Version

⁶ Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying, ⁷ “You shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves. 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.’