Exodus 5:16-18

Expanded Bible

¹⁶ You give ·us [^Lyour servants] no straw, but we are commanded to make bricks. Our slave masters beat us, but it is your own people’s ·fault [offense; sin].”

¹⁷ ·The king [^LHe] answered, “You are lazy! ·You don’t want to work [^LLazy]! ·That is why you ask to leave here [^LTherefore you say, “Let us go…”] and make sacrifices to the Lord. ¹⁸ Now, go back to work! We will not give you any straw, but you must make just as many bricks as you did before.”