⁵ Pharaoh also saith, `Lo, numerous now [is] the people of the land, and ye have caused them to cease from their burdens!'

⁶ And Pharaoh commandeth, on that day, the exactors among the people and its authorities, saying,

⁷ `Ye do not add to give straw to the people for the making of the bricks, as heretofore -- they go and have gathered straw for themselves;