Exodus 5:15-17

Expanded Bible

¹⁵ Then the Israelite ·foremen [supervisors] went to ·the king [^LPharaoh] and ·complained [protested], “Why are you treating us, your servants, this way? 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.