Exodus 5:17-19

Lexham English Bible

¹⁷ And he said, “You are lazy, lazy! Therefore you are saying, ‘Let us go; let us sacrifice to Yahweh.’ ¹⁸ And now go, work, but straw will not be given to you, and you must give the full quota of bricks.”

¹⁹ And the foremen of the Israelites^[a] saw they were in trouble with the saying,^[b] “You will not reduce from your bricks for each day^[c] on its day.”