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How did Pharaoh increase the Israelites’ workload after Moses made his demand?

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Moses and the Ten Commandments — Moses *Moses Showing the Tables of the Law to the People*, oil painting by Rembrandt, 1659; in the Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.

After Moses and Aaron confronted Pharaoh with the demand to let the Israelites go, Pharaoh responded by increasing their oppression. He implemented a plan that required the Hebrews to gather their own straw for making bricks while still being required to produce the same daily quota as before.1