Exodus 5:7-9 ▼

7 “You shall no longer supply the people with straw for their brickmaking as before. Let them go and gather their own straw!

8 Yet you shall levy upon them the same quota of bricks as they made previously. Do not reduce it. They are lazy; that is why they are crying, ‘Let us go to offer sacrifice to our God.’

9 Increase the work for the men, so that they attend to it and not to deceitful words.”