Exodus 5:15-17

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁵ Then the Israelite supervisors came to Pharaoh and cried, ‘Why do you treat your servants like this? ¹⁶ No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, “Make bricks!” Look how your servants are beaten! You are unjust to your own people.’^{[a] 17} He said, ‘You are lazy, lazy; that is why you say, “Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.”