Exodus 5:5-7

Revised Geneva Translation

⁵ Pharaoh said furthermore, “Behold, many people are now in the land, and you make them stop working.”

⁶ Therefore, that same day, Pharaoh gave commandment to the taskmasters of the people, and to their officers, saying,

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