Exodus 5:16-18

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁶ No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, Make bricks! And behold, your servants are beaten, but the fault is in your own people.

¹⁷ But [Pharaoh] said, You are idle, lazy and idle! That is why you say, Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.

¹⁸ Get out now and get to work; for no straw shall be given you, yet you shall deliver the full quota of bricks.