Exodus 5:7-18 You shall not continue to give crushed straw to the people to mold the bricks as heretofore. They shall go and rake together crushed straw for themselves.

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁷ You shall not continue to give crushed straw to the people to mold the bricks as heretofore. They shall go and rake together crushed straw for themselves. ⁸ You shall place on them the regular number of bricks which they were making heretofore. You shall not diminish from it, for they are slackers. Therefore they are crying, saying: Let us go; let us sacrifice to our Elohim. ⁹ The service shall be heavy on the men, and they shall make do with it and not heed false words. ¹⁰ So the exactors of the people and their superintendents went forth and spoke to the people, saying: Thus says Pharaoh: I am not giving crushed straw to you. ¹¹ As for you, go, take for yourselves crushed straw from whatever you may find, because there shall be nothing subtracted from your service. ¹² Hence the people scattered in all the land of Egypt to rake together straw for crushed straw. ¹³ And the exactors were rushing, saying: Finish your tasks, a day's tally in its day, just as when there was crushed straw given to you. ¹⁴ Then the superintendents of the sons of Israel were being smitten, whom Pharaoh's exactors had placed over them, saying: For what reason did you not finish your statutory number of bricks both yesterday and today as you did heretofore? ¹⁵ Then the superintendents of the sons of Israel entered and cried to Pharaoh, saying: Why are you doing thus to your servants? ¹⁶ Crushed straw is not being given to your servants. And of bricks, they are saying to us, Make them. And behold, your servants are being smitten, and your people are at fault. ¹⁷ Yet he said: You are slackers--slackers! Therefore you are saying, Let us go; let us sacrifice to Yahweh. ¹⁸ Yet now go, serve! But crushed straw shall not be given to you, though the regular number of bricks shall you provide.