Exodus 5:9-11

New Catholic Bible

⁹ Let more work be laid upon them so that they keep busy and not pay attention to lies.”

¹⁰ The taskmasters of the people and the overseers went out and spoke to the people: “Pharaoh has ordered, ‘I will not give you straw. ¹¹ You can go and gather it for yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work must not decline.’ ”