Exodus 5:7-9

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁷ “Don’t give the people any more straw to make bricks as you have been doing. Let them gather their own straw, ⁸ but insist that they make the same number of bricks they were making before. Making fewer bricks will not be acceptable. They’re lazy! That’s why they’re crying, ‘Let us go offer sacrifices to our God.’ ⁹ Make the work harder for these people so that they will be too busy to listen to lies.”