Exodus 5:9-11

New International Version - UK

⁹ Make the work harder for the people so that they keep working and pay no attention to lies.’

¹⁰ Then the slave drivers and the overseers went out and said to the people, ‘This is what Pharaoh says: “I will not give you any more straw. ¹¹ Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced at all.”’