Exodus 5:15-17

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁵ Then the Hebrew foremen came to Pharaoh and cried, Why do you deal like this with your servants?

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.