Exodus 5:4-6

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁴ But the king of Egypt said to them, ‘Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people away from their work? Get to your labours!’ ⁵ Pharaoh continued, ‘Now they are more numerous than the people of the land^[a] and yet you want them to stop working!’ ⁶ That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, as well as their supervisors,