Daily Discovery Bible Study

5 “Look here,” he went on. “There are many of your people here in our country and you are preventing them from doing their assigned labor.”6 That very day he ordered the slave drivers and those in charge of the people:7 “Don't give them any more straw to make bricks like before. Have them go and collect the straw themselves.8 But still make them produce the same quantity of bricks as before. They're lazy people—that's why they're calling out, asking, ‘Please let us go and offer sacrifices to our god.9 Make their work harder so they can get on with it and not pay any attention to all these lies!”

10 So the slave drivers and those in charge went out and told the people, “This is what Pharaoh has ordered: ‘I won't give you any more straw.11 Go and get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because your work quota won't be reduced.”12 So the people went all over Egypt collecting stubble for straw.

Exodus 5: 5-12