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Pharaoh ordered that straw would no longer be given, but the people still had to produce the same number of bricks. He described them as idle and used the harsher labor to press them back into work. The policy is stated as an intentional tightening of their burden (Exodus 5:6-9).
6The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
7"You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
8The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, `Let us go and sacrifice to our God.`
9Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don`t let them pay any attention to lying words."