Exodus 5:8-10

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁸ but insist that they make the same number of bricks they were making before. Making fewer bricks will not be acceptable. They’re lazy! That’s why they’re crying, ‘Let us go offer sacrifices to our God.’ ⁹ Make the work harder for these people so that they will be too busy to listen to lies.”

¹⁰ The slave drivers and foreman went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: I’m no longer giving you straw.