Exodus 5:15-17

The Voice

Supervisors (pleading with Pharaoh): Why are you treating your servants this way? ¹⁶ No more straw is being provided to your servants, yet the slave drivers keep yelling at us, “Make bricks!” And then your servants are beaten; it is your people who are at fault here, not us.

Pharaoh: ¹⁷ No. It is you. You are lazy! You are all so very lazy! You try to escape your work by making up excuses, saying, “Please release us so that we may go sacrifice to the Eternal.”