15. Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
16. There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault it in thine own people.
17. But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and sacrifice to Jehovah.
18. Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the number of bricks.