15. Then the Hebrew foremen came to Pharaoh and cried, Why do you deal like this with your servants?
16. No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, Make bricks! And behold, your servants are beaten, but the fault is in your own people.
17. But [Pharaoh] said, You are idle, lazy and idle! That is why you say, Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.
18. Get out now and get to work; for no straw shall be given you, yet you shall deliver the full quota of bricks.
19. And the Hebrew foremen saw that they were in an evil situation when it was said, You shall not diminish in the least your full daily quota of bricks.
20. And the foremen met Moses and Aaron, who were standing in the way as they came forth from Pharaoh.
21. And the foremen said to them, The Lord look upon you and judge, because you have made us a rotten stench to be detested by Pharaoh and his servants and have put a sword in their hand to slay us.