Exodus 5:9-11

Contemporary English Version

⁹ Make them work so hard that they won't have time to listen to these lies.

¹⁰ The slave bosses and the men in charge of the slaves went out and told them, “The king says he will not give you any more straw. ¹¹ Go and find your own straw wherever you can, but you must still make as many bricks as before.”