Exodus 5:15-17

International Children’s Bible

¹⁵ Then the Israelite foremen went to the king. They complained and said, “Why are you treating us, your servants, this way? 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.