Exodus 5:7 CPDV

⁵  And Pharaoh said: 'The people of the land are many. You see that the turmoil has increased: how much more if you give them rest from the works?'

⁶  Therefore, on the same day, he instructed the overseers of the works, and the taskmasters of the people, saying:

⁷  'You shall no longer give chaff to the people to form bricks, as before. But they may go and gather straw.

⁸  And you shall impose upon them the same quota of bricks that they made before. Neither will you lessen anything, for they are idle, and therefore they cry out, saying: 'We shall go and sacrifice to our God.'

⁹  They shall be oppressed with works, and these shall occupy them, so that they may not agree to lying words.'