18. “So now go, work. And straw is not given to you, but deliver the amount of bricks.”
19. And the foremen of the children of Yisra’ĕl saw that they were in trouble after it was said, “You are not to diminish your daily amount of bricks.”
20. And when they came out from Pharaoh, they met Mosheh and Aharon who stood there to meet them.
21. And they said to them, “Let יהוה look on you and judge, because you have made us loathsome in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants, to give a sword in their hand to kill us.”
22. And Mosheh returned to יהוה and said, “יהוה, why have You done evil to this people? Why did You send me?
23. “For ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your Name, he has done evil to this people. And You have not delivered Your people at all.”