Exodus 5:5-9 And Pharao said, Behold this people is now numerous, therefore we must not let them rest from their labours.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ And Pharao said, Behold this people is now numerous, therefore we must not let them rest from their labours. ⁶ So Pharao gave orders to the task masters of the people and to the clerks saying, ⁷ You shall no more give the people straw to make bricks as heretofore; but let them go and gather straw for themselves; ⁸ yet the daily task of brick making which they now perform, you shall lay upon them. Thou shalt make no abatement; for they are idle. Therefore they have cried saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. ⁹ Let the work of these men be made heavy and let them employ their thoughts about that, and not trouble themselves with vain discourses.