17. But he said, “You are idle! You are idle! That is why you say, ‘Let us go and slaughter to יהוה.’
18. “So now go, work. And straw is not given to you, but deliver the amount of bricks.”
19. And the foremen of the children of Yisra’ĕl saw that they were in trouble after it was said, “You are not to diminish your daily amount of bricks.”