Exodus 5:9-11

9Make the work more difficult for them to do. They will have to do very hard work. They will be too busy to listen to the lies of their leaders.’

10So the slaves' masters and the leaders of the work went to the Israelite people. They said to them, ‘Pharaoh says, “Now I will not give you straw.

11You must try to find straw for yourselves. But you will still have to make the same number of bricks.” ’