Exodus 5:9-11

Modern English Version

⁹ Let there be more work laid upon the men so that they may labor therein, and let them not regard deceptive words.”

¹⁰ The taskmasters of the people and their officers went out, and they spoke to the people, saying, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not give you straw. ¹¹ Go, get straw where you can find it, yet nothing of your work shall be diminished.’ ”