Exodus 5:4-9
Read Exodus 5 in full →4But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you 1draw the people away from their 2work? Get back to your 3,ahard labors!” 5And Pharaoh said, “Look, athe people of the land are now many, and you would have them cease from their hard labors!” 6So on that day Pharaoh commanded athe taskmasters over the people and their bforemen, saying, 7“You are no longer to give the people straw to make brick as previously; let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8“But the quota of bricks which they were making previously, you shall set upon them; you are not to reduce any of it. Because they are alazy, therefore they are crying out, ‘1Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’ 9“Let their slavery be hard on the men, and let them work at it so that they will have no regard for false words.”