Exodus 5:8-10

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁸ And you shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which they did before, neither shall you diminish any thing thereof: for they are idle, and therefore they cry, saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

⁹ Let them be oppressed, with works, and let them fulfill them: that they may not regard lying words.

¹⁰ And the overseers of the works and the taskmasters went out and said to the people: Thus saith Pharao, I allow you no straw: