Exodus 5:16-18

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