Exodus 5:7 WEB

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.'

⁹  Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let them pay any attention to lying words.'