Exodus 5:7-9

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁷ You shall no more give the people straw to make brick; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

⁸ But the number of the bricks which they made before you shall still require of them; you shall not diminish it in the least. For they are idle; that is why they cry, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

⁹ Let heavier work be laid upon the men that they may labor at it and pay no attention to lying words.