16. No straw is supplied to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ Look at how your servants are being beaten! Your own people are to blame!"
17. Pharaoh replied, "You are lazy bums, nothing but lazy bums. That’s why you say, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifices to the Lord.’
18. Go and get back to work! No straw will be given to you, but you still need to make the same number of bricks."
19. The Israelite supervisors saw how impossible their situation was when they were commanded, "Don’t reduce your daily quota of bricks."
20. When they left Pharaoh, they met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them.