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17 Then Pharaoh[a] said, “You are lazy, lazy! That’s why[b] you’re saying, ‘Let’s go offer sacrifices to the Lord.’ 18 Now, go! Get to work! And straw won’t be given to you, but you are to deliver the same[c] number of bricks!” 19 The Israeli supervisors realized they were in trouble when he said,[d] “You won’t reduce each day’s quota of bricks!”[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 5:17 Lit. he
  2. Exodus 5:17 Lit. therefore
  3. Exodus 5:18 The Heb. lacks same
  4. Exodus 5:19 Lit. saying
  5. Exodus 5:19 Lit. your bricks