EXODUS 5:4, 8 Then the king of Egypt said to them,”Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people from their work? Get back to your labor.” “And you shall lay on them the quota of bricks which they made before. You shall not reduce it. For they are idle;...

Exodus 1:9-10 And [the king] said to his people, “Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we; come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against...