Exodus 5:16-18

International Children’s Bible

¹⁶ You give us no straw. But we are commanded to make bricks. Our slave masters beat us. But it is your own people’s fault.”

¹⁷ The king answered, “You are lazy! You don’t want to work! That is why you ask to leave here 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.”