15. Then the Israelite supervisors came and pleaded to Pharaoh, "Why do you treat your servants like this?
16. No straw is supplied to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ Look at how your servants are being beaten! Your own people are to blame!"
17. Pharaoh replied, "You are lazy bums, nothing but lazy bums. That’s why you say, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifices to the Lord.’
18. Go and get back to work! No straw will be given to you, but you still need to make the same number of bricks."