Exodus 5:7-9

Revised Geneva Translation

⁷ “You shall give the people no more straw to make brick (as in times past). Let them go and gather straw themselves.

⁸ “Nevertheless, lay upon them the same number of bricks which they made before. Diminish nothing thereof. For they are idle. Therefore, they cry, saying, ‘Let us go to offer sacrifice to our God.’

⁹ “Lay more work upon the men and make them do it; and do not let them listen to false words.”