Exodus 5:17-19

New Century Version

¹⁷ The king answered, “You are lazy! You don’t want to work! That is why you ask to leave here and make sacrifices to the Lord. ¹⁸ Now, go back to work! We will not give you any straw, but you must make just as many bricks as you did before.”

¹⁹ The Israelite foremen knew they were in trouble, because the king had told them, “You must make just as many bricks each day as you did before.”