18. So go now and work! No straw will be given to you—but you must deliver the quota of bricks.”
19. So the foremen of Bnei-Yisrael saw that they were in trouble when they were told, “You are not to reduce the number of bricks from day to day.”
20. Then they met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them as they came from Pharaoh.
21. So they said to them, “May Adonai look on you and judge, because you have made us a stench in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants—putting a sword in their hand to kill us!”
22. So Moses returned to Adonai and said, “Adonai, why have You brought evil on these people? Is this why You sent me?
23. Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your Name, he has brought evil on these people. You have not delivered Your people at all.”