4 The king of Egypt said to them, 'Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!'
5 Pharaoh said, 'Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens.'
6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
7 'You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
8 The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'
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