Exodus 5:8-10

Revised Geneva Translation

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.”

¹⁰ Then, the taskmasters of the people and their officers went out and told the people, saying, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will give you no more straw.