Exodus 5:16-18

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁶ No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ Look how your servants are beaten! You are unjust to your own people.”^{[a] 17} He said, “You are lazy, lazy; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’ ¹⁸ Go now, and work; for no straw shall be given you, but you shall still deliver the same number of bricks.”